My main concern is to demonstrate that there took place in the first and second centuries of our era (and to a lesser extent in the early Hellenistic period) a shift in the presentation of the self and of self-consciousness in certain key works of the literature of antiquity. I hope this book will demonstrate that neither assumption is necessarily correct. It has been sometimes assumed that I am subject to the emotions myself or that I am the victim of a misplaced and pedantic obscurantism. Introduction Methinks he is either melancholick, or one of those academick asses -ROBERT BURTON, Philosophaster The expostulation by Burton that serves as the epigraph for this introduction has often been leveled at me because of my interest in the subject of melancholy and boredom. Giorgio de Chirico, The Enigma of the Hour Giorgio de Chirico, The Lassitude of the Infinite 17. Giorgio de Chirico, Ariadne's Afternoon 16. Giorgio de Chirico, The Melancholy of a Beautiful Day 14. Giorgio de Chirico, The Enigma of the Oracle 13. Giorgio de Chirico, The Delights of the Poet 11. ![]() Basedow's photograph of a victim of “boning” 6. Basedow's photograph of an Aboriginal “boning” 5. Emil Kraepelin's patient exhibiting stuporous mania 3. Eumenides Painter, “The Purification of Orestes” 2.
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