![]() Now: sworn to the black as an affectation, a series of convictions, a reflection of experiences, a philosophy or a grotesque lifestyle. The ancients, of course, had directly physical, bodily concepts of melancholy and the medieval theorists drew on them as they pressed the emotions to bear the weight of a materialistic, medical causation in the cycling vertigo of the four humors – related to temperature, seasons, environment and color. ![]() Such a judgment has so many theoretical prerequisites that those who are not accustomed to the specialized language of psychiatry - or who only sip faint-heartedly at the spigot of corrective pabulum as it trickles down through clouds of self-help detritus – often simply accept such a statement as somehow “true” and turn towards a life of reflection that either reaches towards more overt expressions of anger or begs a new passivity where frustration is somehow ameliorated by various (seemingly positive) forms of apathy. There is a cliché in psychotherapy (you may have heard itself yourself, and I wonder if it would have been repeated if it didn’t gain traction in thousands of feeble minds) that melancholy or depression is simply aggression and anger turned “inward” when it is frustrated as a legitimate emotion (or vehicle of the same) in the external world.
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