The nature of melancholy

From Aristotle to Kristeva Part 1: Aristotle to Freud 1 Aristotle (or a Follower of Aristotle), Melancholy, from Problems 2 Galen, Diseases of the Black Bile, from On the Affected Parts 3 Cassian, Of the Spirit of Accidie, from The Foundations of the Cenobitic Life and the Eight Capital Sins Book X Chapters I-IV 4 Avicenna, On Black Bileand Melancholia, from Canon of Medicine 5 Hildegard of Bingen, Melancholia in Men and Women, from Holistic Healing 6 Ficino, Learned People and Melancholy, from The Three Books of Life 7 Weyer, Melancholia, Witches, and Deceiving Demons, from Of Deceiving Demons 8 Teresa of Avila, Melancholy Nuns, from The Interior Castle, and The Foundations 9 Bright, Melancholy from Treatise of Melancholy 10 Burton, Melancholic States, from The Anatomy of Melancholy 11 Butler, A Melancholy Man, from Characters 12 Mather, The Cure of Melancholy, from The Angel of Bethesda 13 Finch, Countess of Winchilsea, from The Spleen 14 Boerhaave, Chronical Diseases, from Aphorisms Concerning the Knowledge and Cure of Diseases 15 Goethe, Werther´s Death, from The Sorrows of Young Werther 16 Kant, Illnesses of Cognitive Faculties, from Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View 17 Pinel, Melancholia, from A Treatise on Insanity 18 Rush, Of the Remedies for Hypochondriasis or Tristimania, from Medical Inquiries and Observations Upon the Diseases of the Mind 19 Keats, Ode on Melancholy, Darkness Sonnet 20 Griesinger, States of Mental Depression, from Mental Pathology and Therapeutics 21 Baudelaire, Autumn Song, Spleen 22 Smiles, On Green Sickness and Wertherism, from Self Help 23 Maudsley, Ideational Insanity, from The Physiology and Pathology of the Mind 24 Kraepelin, Manic Depressive Insanity, from Textbook of Psychiatry 25 Freud, Mourning and Melancholia Part 2: After Freud 26 Klein, Mourning and Its Relation to Manic-Depressive States 27 Seligman, The Learned Helplessness Model of Depression, from Helplessness: On Depression, Development, and Death 28 Beck, The Paradoxes of Depression, from Cognitive Therapy and the Emotional Disorders 29 Miller, Ties to Others, from Toward a New Psychology of Women 30 Kristeva, Psychoanalysis--A Counterdepressant, from The Black Sun: Depression and Melancholy 31 Goodwin and Jameson, Biomedical Models, from Manic-Depressive Illness