@book{2011:feld:melancholy,
title = {Melancholy and the Otherness of God},
year = {2011},
note = {An impressive study that prompts the reader toward philosophical
reflection on the hermeneutics of melancholy in its relation to
maturing theological understanding and cultivation of a profound
self-consciousness. Melancholy has been interpreted as a deadly sin or
demonic temptation to non-being, yet its history of interpretation
reveals a progressive coming to terms with the dark mood that
ultimately unveils it as the self's own ground and a trace of the
abysmal nature of God. The book advances two provocative claims: that
far from being a contingent condition, melancholy has been
progressively acknowledged as constitutive of subjectivity as such, a
trace of divine otherness and pathos, and that the effort to transcend
melancholy-like Perseus vanquishing Medusa-is a necessary labor of
maturing self-consciousness. Reductive attempts to eliminate it,
besides being dangerously utopian, risk overcoming the labor of the
soul that makes us human. This study sets forth a rigorous scholarly
argument that spans several disciplines, including philosophy,
theology, psychology, and literary studies.},
edition = {1},
publisher = {Lexington},
address = {Lanham},
series = {},
volume = {},
author = {Feld, Alina N.}
}