The melancholy and other sadnesses: an interaction between literary works and medical treaties: (16th-18th centuries)
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A review is made of the use of the concept melancholy and the associated conditions, such as hypochondria and spleen, between the 16th and 18th centuries, both technical or scientific texts and in literary texts, highlighting the dialogue between them. Melancholy referred to a wide spectrum of conditions, and that's how it was used in the literature, its current association with depressive disorders is late, but it is the one that will cause more texts in the 18th century. It is identified how the literature appropriated psychopathology developments to create characters that in turn were the starting point for medical and psychological theorizing. It is noted that the intertextuality exercises are pedagogical tools, relevant both for the teaching of the disciplines and for research.
- hypochondria
- intertextuality
- literature
- melancholy
- psychopathology
- spleen
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