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2003
- handle: 10670/1.r4du28
- hal: hal-02176428
- doi: 10.1177/0047244103040415
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Claire Crignon de Oliveira, « Is there a melancholic gaze ? From visual distemper to visionary fancy », HAL-SHS : histoire, philosophie et sociologie des sciences et des techniques, ID : 10.1177/0047244103040415
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The aim of this paper is to show the ambivalence of the idea of melancholy in seventeenth-century England from the specific perspective of the melancholic gaze. If the perturbation of the senses and of visual perception may be seen by physicians as a pathological condition, this can also lead the melancholic to develop visionary powers, which can be understood as a remedy against melancholic distemper, as Robert Burton shows in his Anatomy of Melancholy.