Word: melancholia
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...might want to return to a simple definition of mental illness offered by Aristotle: "If fear or sadness lasts for a long time, it is melancholia." In that case, see a doctor. But if your boyfriend just left you and you can barely get out of bed, don't assume you're ill. Your brain is probably doing exactly what it was designed...
Diving into their new album, one is instantly reminded of what defines the Deftones sound: at all possible turns where an uplifting note could appear, instead comes an aesthetic flat comparable to that of Nirvana. This creates a melancholia and an edge in the music, lending an air of unpredictability to the compositions...
...people are boring. Harvard students aren’t all depressed because there is something wrong with them: they’re depressed because there is something to them. The Greeks had it right. They held that the smartest of men had the tendency to become the most depressed. Melancholia, the Greek term for “black bile,” was said to foster pensively intellectual thinkers. And in history, so many great leaders have been depressive or unpleasant. Abraham Lincoln’s melancholia often led him to “weep in public and cite maudlin...
Diagnosed with acute melancholia and a guilt complex, detective John Ferguson, in Alfred Hitchcock's film Vertigo, is advised by his girlfriend to turn to the restorative power of music. "Mozart. Wolfgang Amadeus," says Madge. "I had a long talk with a lady in musical therapy, Johnnie, and she says Mozart is the boy for you. A broom that sweeps the cobwebs away." In its 50th year, Opera Australia is hoping Mozart will be the boy for it. While its prognosis is better than Johnnie's, the country's flagship company has been gathering a few cobwebs lately. Since...
Markus Acher’s serene voice is at once beautiful and painful, yet his singing bears no sign of the overwrought pretentiousness that often befalls melancholia in less skillful hands. And even though Acher’s vocals lack much dynamic or emotive range, their soothing tone actually makes for the album’s most effective, mesmerizing instrument...