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Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy - Coggle Diagram
Burton's
The Anatomy of Melancholy
What is "melancholy"?
Using evidence from the Table of Contents, how does Burton imagine the scope of melancholy?
It comes from God?
Devils/curses/supernatural
aging
genetic
"hot brain" "blood in the brain"
diet
What cures does Burton imagine?
God, devils, and witches. (85);
"virtue of stones, herbs, meats, &c " physicians are here to know these things to help other people (under God); "God's intermiediate ministers" -- a tight relationship between God and the doctor (guided by/serving in God's name)
Pray. "A general fault it is all over the world, we rely more on physic and seek oftener to physicians, than to God himself" (91).
Depression in 2023
authorized by doctors
if no diagnosis, it's not real/you're faking (medicalization)
as an invisible/chronic mode, it's not taken as seriously
there's different versions!
until it's killed. until there is a physical impact
this is also impacted/informed by racial identities and racialized experiences
what causes it?
oh, it's a problem in your mones or your gut biomes (Jordan Peterson/Joe Rogan podcast)
the ongoing horrors of late stage capitalism and anthropocene violence
feelings of purpose/purposelessness
rhetorics of contagion
uh oh, romanticizing depression; YA and high school discourses; TV tropes
Cures: the saving curative powers of heterosexual romance
What is the relationship Burton imagine between doctor and