Name: Marcela Cristina dos Santos
Type: MSc dissertation
Publication date: 30/09/2020
Advisor:
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Cláudia Pereira do Carmo Murta | Advisor * |
Examining board:
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Cláudia Pereira do Carmo Murta | Advisor * |
DANIEL OMAR PEREZ | External Examiner * |
Jorge Augusto da Silva Santos | Internal Examiner * |
Summary: Melancholy has been discusses in countless ways throughout history, often getting different names, which points to an attempt to differentiate it conceptually. Our proposal is to investigate melancholy over time, making it possible to have a historical and philosophical analysis of the notion of health and illness. Parallel to this, we try to understand how Freuds definition of melancholy establishes a connection with the three main traditions of thought Hippocratic thinking; thought contained in Problem XXX and Galenic-Hippocratic-Platonic medical thinking so that it is possible to realize that Freuds notion of melancholy is to keep these medical and philosophical currents while breaking with them at the same time. Bearing in mind the importance of psychological suffering in Freuds theory, our reflection turns to ancient Greece in an attempt to understand how Freudian theory became the heir of a philosophical tradition
of the passions of the soul that allows the realization of illness as an unfolding of
emotions, that is why the research begins with Homeric poems and extends to
contemporary times, allowing us to observe how different ways of explaining and
understanding melancholy happens throughout paradigmatic changes.