In Mourning and Melancholia (1917), Freud compares grief with melancholia, stating that the two share many characteristics.
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His songs evoke a melancholia—a pleasant melancholia—where adultery, apostasy, and alcoholism are redeemed by dark humor.
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Melancholia has a strong genetic contribution, with a study quantifying a three times greater history of depression in family members of those with melancholia.
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If one parent has melancholia, their child has a 10% chance of developing the same; if both parents have melancholia, the chance is approximately 40%.
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He was a member of ACT UP and has written numerous texts on AIDS, trauma, and melancholia, specifically his 2002 book Melancholia and Moralism: Essays on AIDS and Queer Politics.
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Album Review Elegant melancholia isn't enough for the National anymore.
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Melancholia frames depression as aimless antipathy set against the looming apocalypse.
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For two and a half verses, Chance bathes in his melancholia.
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From this, the doctor draws an association between memory and melancholia.
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The opening montage of Lars von Trier's Melancholia (2011) comes to mind.
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Lars Von Trier's Melancholia is one; Martha Marcy May Marlene is another.
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" And a young bride confronts the end of the world in "Melancholia.
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Biological and disease-like depression The key "biological" depressive disorder is melancholia.
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Such moods as alienation and melancholia have no place in his films.
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And in "Melancholia," a young bride awaits the end of the world.
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Melancholia, with its scene of another planet colliding with Earth, comes to mind.
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Few artists of the early 19th century understood melancholia as profoundly as Delacroix.
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Her side of the family is marked by melancholia, mood disorders, and depression.
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And "Melancholia", Lars Von Trier's apocalyptic horror-drama, centres around a bride with the condition.
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In grief the world becomes poor and empty; in melancholia, it is the ego itself.
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Maniac is being compared to films like Melancholia and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
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Of course there's plenty of gentle melancholia, all of which will please the bedroom-bound.
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Talk about "sustaining" nature, or "preserving" it, only exacerbates this mourning and indulges our melancholia.
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The perverse achievement of 'Melancholia' is how difficult it is to argue with her conclusion.
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They're joining a larger chorus of female pop musicians that are leaning into anarchy and melancholia.
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He was often wracked with "savage melancholia" and what he later realised was obsessive-compulsive disorder.
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Alcohol-induced shambling, cocaine-induced motor-mouthing and mushroom-induced melancholia are depicted with sobering accuracy.
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In his 1917 essay "Mourning and Melancholia," Freud established the difference between two kinds of grieving.
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Though after staring at this for a while, I think I finally get what Melancholia was about.
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Gonzales; between her great-great-grandmother's "melancholia" and her own reproductive freedom, protected by Roe v. Wade.
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In addition, those with melancholia lose the capacity to find pleasure in life or be cheered up.
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The exhibit is based on four themes: Good Mother/Bad Mother, Exile/Dislocation, Memory/Melancholia, and Sexuality/War.
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However, in melancholia it's thought that there are also disturbances in other neurotransmitters such as noradrenaline and dopamine.
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"Melancholia, emo and the skate subculture of the 2000s are reinterpreted through prints, colors and designs," she says.
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Trauma, and indeed, melancholia, renders one speechless, in a state of paralysis, unable to digest what one has experienced.
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"It's You" is an elegant whisper of a love song, part mellow soul burner and part post-Coldplay melancholia.
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His most delicate emotional modulations — anger, melancholia, joy, pain — are the wellspring of his multi-multi-multi-platinum success.
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This familiar premise leads to a twist: Instead of adrenaline rush suspense scenes, this plot languishes in mundane melancholia.
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Its symptom was chiefly a mood of melancholia that derived from a longing to return to one's own land.
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And eventually (slight spoiler alert), it becomes another Mary episode, with the tilt toward sentiment and melancholia that implies.
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The end result is a study in Appalachian darkness and universal melancholia, writ in shades of green and black.
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He was barred from that year's prize ceremony or from entering the festival headquarters, although "Melancholia" stayed in the competition.
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On the last album, it was When in Rome's "The Promise," a meaty slab of late-'80s new wave melancholia.
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Hippocrates suggested its use for female ailments, and a ninth-century Persian physician advocated the use of opium for melancholia.
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An intriguing twist on mystical neofolk, steered by unorthodox percussion, Tóth's silvery vocals, and a wick of melancholia running throughout.
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It reminds me of Durer's "Melancholia" from 1514, which also shows a female figure resting her head on one hand.
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Did he choose "Melancholia" as the first for his diamond project to give it a second shot at the spotlight?
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Yet SNCF might have heeded a warning from Marcel Proust, who was fond of trains but wrote of their compelling melancholia.
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Kwade's sculptures unite both categories into a picture book of melancholia, a pictograph spelling out our own destruction in Shakespearian detail.
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In Melancholia, Dunst plays a sick woman trying hard to maintain a facade of normality throughout the ritual of a wedding.
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In the London home of Vijay Mallya, a self-exiled liquor tycoon, Mr Crabtree finds a golden toilet seat and melancholia.
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It's comfort for millennials who are well in their 20s or 30s, attracted by the sweet melancholia of simpler, happier times.
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The song is also his first new material since 2015's Magnolia Melancholia EP, and you can watch the video below.
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But the most resonant moment on the LP comes with "Here Comes The Snow," a song that discusses winter-induced melancholia.
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Starting with the ornate melancholia of "Take Care," from 2011, Drake elevated the unfurling of one's imperfections into an art form.
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"The idea behind 'Balto' was to explore the feeling of melancholia within relationships, but in a dream-like sense," Matsuyma tells Noisey.
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Flanked by springtime roses in a quiet forest, her rounded curves invite the gaze, as her woebegone expression suggests a deeper melancholia.
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As Dee Dee her melancholia was awash with reverbed guitars, gauzy as dawn eking through pale blinds, plus plush girl group harmonies.
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"Before the 20th century, gold was used to treat conditions as varied as syphilis, heart disease, smallpox and melancholia," the authors note.
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Thereafter, women's sexy fishnet stockings became a mainstay of the artist's wardrobe as a way to ward off his bouts of melancholia.
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"Before the 20th century, gold was used to treat conditions as varied as syphilis, heart disease, smallpox and melancholia," the book notes.
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For the sake of discussing the causes of depression, I'll look at two distinct types of depression: melancholia and the situational depressions.
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Mostly, the two painters share a cloud of melancholia that hangs over the work, an apprehension that something is about to happen.
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Netflix is home to some of Magnolia's other titles, including Blackfish and Melancholia, which will remain available to stream on the rival platform.
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Yet grief is a process —once the griever has completed it, she can move on — whereas with melancholia, this possibility does not exist.
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In recent years, studies have not only implicated dysregulation in brain chemicals ("neurotransmitters"), but also in brain network circuits in those with melancholia.
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She tries to be useful to her family, comforting her sister and nephew as the rogue planet Melancholia (a metaphor for depression) approaches Earth.
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This isn't unusual for The Weeknd — the singer specializes in melancholia and extreme disdain, and the song "Starboy" finds him scorning his newfound fame.
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Improving detection techniques could help us spot any wandering worlds that could potentially mess with Earth, a la Melancholia, though these encounters are improbable.
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Solomun and Mano share an affinity for tracks with soul and a subtle melancholia that sits atop grooves with some hefty gravity to them.
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They also experienced greater reductions in hot flashes and sweating, insomnia, nervousness, melancholia, fatigue and headache than the comparison group receiving only conventional treatment.
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What I'm more drawn to is the personal nature of this stuff, whether that's Melancholia or Take Shelter, or even Children Of Men or something.
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His Carly Rae Jepsen collaboration, "All That" also hammers home his colorful, beat-heavy Prince influences, while letting his production's understated melancholia take center stage.
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At this late stage, I consulted a psychiatrist who confirmed that this was more than grief: I was experiencing a major depressive episode, with melancholia.
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Menopause wasn't the only syndrome that preoccupied European physicians in this "early modern" era; others included hysterical suffocation, nymphomania, chlorosis or "green sickness," and melancholia.
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The times we live in are more depressive than ever, and few films have gotten the operatic, dramatic, and mundane aspects of this sadness like Melancholia.
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As in "Crying in H-Mart," in Crazy Rich Asians the process of being reunified with cultural commodities is only a balm for a deep melancholia.
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He seems attracted by things intrusive to the peaceful psyche: the obsessive melancholia of outsiderism, folklorism, Decadentism, Divinationism, ethnologism, nihilism, and mysticism of the elegiac obsessive strain.
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Metz (Rory Cochrane) has been diagnosed with "melancholia" from his years of trauma, and Mr Cochrane summons a distant, almost alien quality to play the troubled soldier.
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And now the new school here in New York will be holding a class called "Male Melancholia: Crisis Masculinity," which focuses on the fall of white masculinity.
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Basically, a Lars Kepler thriller stops only to fixate on Joona's eyes, which distractingly transfix any number of characters who take in this tall hunk of melancholia.
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The whole thing sounds incredibly similar to the ending of the Lars von Trier film Melancholia where a rogue planet crashes into Earth at the end, killing everyone.
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In this text Crimp argues that the losses resulting from AIDS, as well as the decline of AIDS activism, have resulted in a melancholia as Freud defines it.
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Leslie Hewitt: I consider photography through spatial and sculptural terms; for me, the photograph is a material object of desire, love, sadness, beauty, isolation, melancholia, evidence, and power.
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However, her wins have been mostly relegated to MTV and Teen Choice awards, except for winning the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress in 2011 for Melancholia.
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In the grip of post-colonial melancholia, with much of its population given little to hope for, it imagines that the enemy lies across the channel in Europe.
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After that era, Dunst's acting got stronger and stranger, with Dunst playing one of her best roles in a film that attracted lots of attention — Lars von Trier's Melancholia.
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While most of the Sicario score is as frenetic and intense as Denis Villeneuve's film, "Desert Music" and the later track "Melancholia" are a somber interlude to anxious action.
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Among other gigs, he did two "24"-related projects, and appeared in art-house fare, including Lars von Trier's "Melancholia," and "Forsaken," a western with his father, Donald Sutherland.
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Yet opioids have a long history of being used to treat melancholia and other psychological disorders — right up until the 1950s, when the current group of antidepressants were discovered.
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Some negative moods, such as melancholia and nostalgia (a longing for the past), may even be pleasant and seem to provide useful information to guide future plans and motivation.
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In eight novels produced in just over a decade, he has combined Kafka's paranoia with Whitman's earnest American grain to found a fictional kingdom of genial doom and melancholia.
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" Dunst wielded tremendous influence on the project, down to casting -- including the choice of Skarsgard, with whom she worked with in Lars Von Trier's intensely psychological 2011 film "Melancholia.
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In "Panic Room" (2002), David Fincher revealed how attractive Whitaker could be when his performance as a thug had hints of melancholia and tenderheartedness without being subsumed by them.
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If we aren't given the opportunity to understand and process why a breakup is occurring, we can be denied healthy mourning and remain trapped in a state of melancholia.
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A half century ago, it was believed "melancholia" was common in later life and that seniors naturally withdrew from the world as they understood their days were limited, Callahan explained.
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Not only are the lyrics to Bill Withers' "Ain't No Sunshine" about melancholia and loss, but the song is also in a minor key that's typically associated with sad feelings.
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In recent years, Lars von Trier's film Melancholia and novels such as Edan Lepucki's California and Emily St. John Mandel's Station Eleven have all satisfied our taste for impending doom.
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Conan Doyle's coup de maître, as Watson might say, is to make his hero a flawed man, prone to deep melancholia, liable to escape into cocaine- or opium-induced oblivion.
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Its director Lars von Trier was famously banned from the festival in 2011 after making a joke about sympathizing with Nazis during a press conference for the Kirsten Dunst-starrer Melancholia.
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With its sparse drums and expansive, multi-layered guitar set to Read's vivid lyrics, it speaks of intense yearning and bittersweet melancholia, of being trapped in a fog of anxious sleeplessness.
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Same goes for Sabbat, Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard, Blue Hummingbird on the Left, Oozing Wound, Downfall of Gaia, Tribulation's upcoming Melancholia EP, and the forthcoming split from HELL and Primitive Man.
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Their set is the perfect mixture of unabashed pop-rock joy with tinges of tender young heartbreak and just the right amount of melancholia folded in to take the edge off.
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Finally, Dr. Kramer wonders if depression itself is not a shifting target, evolving from the deep melancholia often seen in the last century and seldom seen today into a different beast.
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"In one way or another, we are all Orwellian," critic Iván de la Nuez muses in the exhibition's catalogue, and the galleries document a collective experience of disillusion, outrage, and melancholia.
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Psychotic Melancholia opens with "Large Hall, Slow Decay" a good-natured single focused on teasing a holy roller who's found herself on a mission to save King from her sinning ways.
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And some films I love: Interstellar, District 9, Melancholia, Alien, Cube, Blade Runner, Robocop, Predator, Pi, Primer, Matrix, Oblivion, Ender's Game, The Signal, Elysium, Children of Men, Gravity, Automata, Lucy, Prometheus, Transcendence.
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It's a feeling both languid and feverish, that lives somewhere within the spaces between bliss and melancholia, like a heatwave that's gone on for too long, or waves of sadness during summertime.
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He was such a frequent visitor that he had his own room and was treated as a member of the family, his likes and dislikes known, his various ailments — melancholia, insomnia — understood.
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Drown out fears of living out the plot of Melancholia for real with a little help from the Juno Chiller, a product designed to bring beverages down to a delicious, cool temperature.
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She also provides an instrumental catalyst for Ava's slow-stirring (and wisely open-ended) awakening, as she tries on new identities free of the fatalism or rote melancholia of her dead mentors.
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In a now notorious news conference after the screening of "Melancholia", Von Trier rambled about wanting to be a Jew, but finding out he was "really a Nazi because my family was German".
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Agitated depression, or "melancholia agitate," was once described as a "mixed state," in which some symptoms of depression exist with those of other psychiatric ailments, but it's since been axed from the DSM.
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This melancholia, I would argue, is connected to the death of God, or the ability to conceive God in a certain way, and stems from that Romantic transference of the divine into nature.
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In a press conference before von Trier's film Melancholia premiered in competition that year, a journalist asked the director about his German roots and his use of a "Nazi aesthetic" in the film.
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Melancholia is therefore more likely to respond to the broader action antidepressant drugs such as the serotonergic and noradrenergic reuptake inhibitors (SNRIs) and tricyclics (TCAs), with the latter targeting all three implicated neurotransmitters.
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But Dr. Fieve pointed out that lithium had been found in natural mineral waters prescribed by Greek and Roman physicians 1,500 years earlier to treat what were then called manic insanity and melancholia.
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In 2011, the Danish director Lars von Trier was barred from the festival after he said during a news conference for his film "Melancholia" that he was a Nazi and sympathized with Hitler.
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Has every single Lars von Trier film with its dance with cruelty (The House That Jack Built) and beauty ( Melancholia) not been a bad narrative excuse for the man to visualize his sick fantasies?
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Does it mean that his music, from the cultural disintegration of "Diamond Dogs," through the depressive languor of "Low," on to apparent melancholia of "Lazarus" is some sort of message of gloom and doom?
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"Nibiru," for example, turns its eye toward an object of intense conspiracist scrutiny, a supposed planet lingering somewhere in the outer realms of our solar system, coming soon to Melancholia us all into oblivion.
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As the ecological theorist Timothy Morton writes in his book "Ecology Without Nature," the environmental movement has become, and perhaps always was, infused with a sense of mourning and melancholia (not to mention nostalgia).
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That year, at the news conference for "Melancholia" — his brilliant, deeply felt movie about the end of the world or at least one woman — Mr. von Trier blurted out that he was a Nazi.
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Since PBF, Gurewitch has shifted his focus to film and TV, and he published a Kickstarter book called Notes on a Case of Melancholia, Or: A Little Death that pays homage to Edward Gorey.
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This latest entry in their sprawling discography is anchored by the band's customary slabs of slow-moving, magisterial doom, tempered with Bryan Funck's eternally rabid snarls, poetically nihilistic lyrics, and overarching, ego-killing melancholia.
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It reinforces what New Kingdom demonstrated when we first heard it—whether they're sweeping you up with jangling, uplifting melodies or smoothing you out with humid melancholia, Givers remain in complete control of their audience.
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In essence, the two artists' headspaces could not really have been in more opposite places; Prince, artistically baptised and ready to change the world, and Kate Bush, surrounded by a fog of melancholia and disarray.
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According to social scientist and psychology scholar Renee Lertzman, author of 210's Environmental Melancholia, large numbers of people have recently come to the realization that climate change is real, scary, and not being addressed.
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These indicative findings are being progressively advanced by highly technical brain imaging strategies, and so in future years should clarify the multiple functional and structural changes that occur in the brain for those with melancholia.
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Bradley Mullins started in pop band Sundogs but as Brad Stank he's upped the melodic melancholia that sounds like it could have drawn some influence from the likes of King Krule, Homeshake or even Connan Mockasin.
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The band have cultivated a certain grand, Southern Gothic air, as well, channeling melancholia and magnolias instead of the swampy, down-tuned menace we've been conditioned to expect from metal made south of the Mason-Dixon.
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Equal parts Dolly Parton and Jefferson Airplane, Hayley Thompson-King's solo record Psychotic Melancholia is a poetic and measured critique of life as a woman in the 21st century, but don't let that turn you off.
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It is ornate and rich, a sound to bathe in, imbued with the kind of chilly melancholia that rises from the edges of English towns, the places where the nothing of nothingness takes on cosmic proportions.
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This is "Melancholia: The Diamond," a puzzling exhibition created by the Danish filmmaker Lars von Trier, which opened on Friday at the M HKA, the leading contemporary art museum in Antwerp, and runs until May 5.
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"I've started to think of the assassination as a cosmic body that is approaching," he said, noting the influence of Lars von Trier's film, "Melancholia," which builds urgency from another planet on a collision course with Earth.
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You can still hear some country in a few of the band's songs, but they're hidden enough to make Psychotic Melancholia feel that much more like a head-first dive into the genre than a gradual transition.
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For her debut feature, Arnold participated in an experiment hatched by a few filmmakers, including Lone Scherfig (An Education) and Lars von Trier (Melancholia), in which three first-time directors would make movies based on the same characters.
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When I heard Mitski's songs instead, I recoiled from their melancholia, intuiting that the experience of hearing another Asian woman sing over and over again about not getting what she wanted was probably something I wouldn't endure well.
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The song's continued emergence within that colonial context imbued it with solemnity, and today many view the tune as one of the foremost articulations of han — the bitter, unyielding melancholia that is often described as a national characteristic.
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" Mr. von Trier, who won the Palme d'Or in 2000 for "Dancer in the Dark," has been absent from the Cannes festival for seven years, after comments he made during the news conference for his 2011 competition title "Melancholia.
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Boris (James Hyndman) is a dyspeptic man of means whose wife, Beatrice (Simone-Elise Girard), is afflicted with a sketchily defined melancholia that has rendered her unresponsive; she has taken a leave from her post in the Canadian cabinet.
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"There's a melancholia that I like in the first movie that we kept alive in Deckard, and something taciturn, not someone who talks a lot, and a sadness to the character that is there and existential doubt," Villeneuve said.
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"There's a melancholia that I like in the first movie that we kept alive in Deckard, and something taciturn, not someone who talks a lot, and a sadness to the character that is there and existential doubt," the director said.
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Her lyrics are often abstract, but in the misty abstractions of her compositions—which are based both in her background in free improv and jazz saxophone—she strikes an unlikely balance between childlike glee, solipsistic silence, creeping melancholia, and anxious chaos.
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She's helped personalize blockbusters (the first "Spider-Man" cycle), headlined pop delights like the cheerleading romp "Bring It On" and easily shouldered the weight of "Melancholia," the dystopian Lars von Trier drama that won her best actress at Cannes in 2011.
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Ranging from minimalist ambient composers to lush 90s R&B to viscous sophisti-pop like Prefab Sprout and the Blue Nile to nocturnal dubstep, they favor from distinctive voices with a knack for portraying melancholia in widescreen, finding high drama in simple gestures.
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He uses an iPad (not a phone) to devour social media and news, and loves to watch old boxing matches and movies like "The Wolf of Wall Street" and "Melancholia," a 2011 dystopian drama that ends with the obliteration of the Earth.
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"I think a lot of apocalypse stories that I'm drawn to are personal apocalypses, whether it's like Take Shelter or Melancholia," he said, though he also cites The Shining, The Thing, Night of the Living Dead, and The Act of Killing as inspirations.
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They're romantic and cinematic in a way that can only come fully-formed from the West Coast – splashes of pop sheen, but without being too sickly or clinical; tinges of melancholia, but without the bleakness present in the music of colder, faster cities.
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In "Ordinarily Well," Dr. Kramer, who has written so well about the curse of melancholia — that thief who steals your blood and slyly replaces it with lead — has done something very valuable: He has waded into the contentious debate about the efficacy of antidepressants.
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In a 1968 article in The British Medical Journal, Dr. Carroll announced that when the test was administered to people with the severest species of depression — a paralyzing gloom then called melancholia, or endogenous depression — their bodies were shown to have trouble suppressing the hormone.
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Since then, Dunst has continued cultivating a repertoire of high-profile roles with Jumanji, Bring It On, Fargo, Marie Antoinette, The Virgin Suicides, Little Women with Winona Ryder and Melancholia, which won her the best actress prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 2011.
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Turning the corner and discovering the lovers in flagrante delicto, and approaching this enormous spray-drip piece for a better look creates a jolt of self-conscious connection/disconnection that lifts both sex and painting out of their superfluous state of sluggish, solipsistic melancholia.
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A dizzying tour de force, it veers between rave numbers, raw humor (including a cameo by Jack Black), moody gloom and melancholia — which might have something to do with their recent (and very L.A.) study of chaos magick, an occult offshoot that involves spells, sigils and hypnotic music.
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This melancholia is the new dream-pop, and Post Malone has found like-minded musical collaborators — Louis Bell foremost among them, and also Frank Dukes, who offers a more nuanced take on the sound — partial to gloomy tempos and synths that seep into every available corner of a track.
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" Mr. von Trier said in a Skype interview from his home near Copenhagen that the diamond, which has a brilliant cut on one side but is rough on the other and has the filmmaker's initials "LvT" carved into it, serves as a metaphorical representation of his 2011 film "Melancholia.
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Dunst and Skarsgard played a husband and wife once before, in Lars Von Trier's apocalyptic manic-depressive fantasia Melancholia, and whereas in Von Trier's film Skarsgard was more or less the same in sweet, unthinking spirit if not necessarily in class, Dunst's two unhappy wives could not be more dissimilar.
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Parker sees him, quite rightly, as belonging to the long tradition of English melancholia, but despite the sometimes old-fashioned ways in which it is framed—the lads and lasses, the ploughed fields, the shimmering weirs—Housman's melancholy is a more angsty, modern version, untethered from any religious or artistic consolation.
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Schreck's great-grandmother ultimately died very young, after being institutionalized for "melancholia"; the domestic abuse she may have experienced, and which was thereafter experienced by subsequent generations of women in her family, created a tenuous contradictory strain of resilience and denial within her mother's consciousness and, to some extent, Schreck's own.
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Seeking a Friend for the End of the World Melancholia isn't on Netflix anymore, but apocalypse film fans can get their desperation-romance fixes in with Steve Carrell and Keira Knightly in this heartfelt love story about two individuals who find each other on the eve of an asteroid's arrival.
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He found that mourning is a healthy, conscious response to the loss of a loved one, while melancholia involves longer-lasting and more traumatic consequences that can include a drop in self-esteem, difficulty functioning in the world, feelings of inferiority, and a general inability to make sense of and move on from what's happened.
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I believe Dunst deserved the Oscar that Meryl Streep won for playing Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady, and she was thwarted by an idiot director and the fact that Melancholia was released through a small distributor like IFC, the type of company that can't put its money behind the six-month march toward an Oscar.
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His last huge song, the bombastic lucre of 2012's "Pop That," was rinsed for a full year before his disastrous debut Excuse My French saw release; this year, the hollow melancholia of "Lockjaw" swept in like a thick fog as the chaotic release strategy of follow-up MC20163 made The Life of Pablo look organized by comparison.
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From the anxiety of continuous flux embodied in André Masson's "There is No Finished World" (1942) to a melancholia for a ruinous "Europe After the Rain II" (1940-1942) by Max Ernst to the mutilated bodies of Hans Bellmer's "The Doll" (1935), Monsters & Myths is unrelenting in barraging the visitors with expressions of violence, pain, and the grotesque.
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Listening to In Colour in 212019, its origins as a lament on gentrification feel somewhat ironic: This album was pretty much ubiquitous in the second half of this decade, its skippy breakbeats and lovelorn-on-the-dancefloor melancholia soundtracking cafes, chic retail spaces, WeWorks, Apple ads, and pretty much anywhere else you would expect city-dwelling creative professionals to be lurking.
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But after passing through Félix González-Torres's symbolist "Untitled (Blood)" (1992) strands of red beads at the exhibition's entrance, it was encouraging to see the curators Bethenod and Florian Ebner digging deeper into the 'self' with emotional sub-themes of melancholia, political autobiography, materiality and identity games, best exemplified by the incognito poly-identities presented by Urs Lüthi, Claude Cahun, Marcel Bascoulard, and Cindy Sherman.
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For every Boy with Apple, created specifically to evoke an Old World feeling Wes Anderson's Grand Budapest Hotel, and every Catherine Kubrick painting lining the vaunted walls of Stanley's Eyes Wide Shut, there's a distraught William Turner hanging in Sam Mendes' Skyfall ( The Fighting Temeraire), an apocalyptic Picasso in Alfonso Cuarón's Children of Men ( Guernica), and an ecstatic Pieter Bruegel the Elder in both Lars von Trier's Melancholia as in Tarkovsky's Solaris ( Hunters in the Snow).
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For every Boy with Apple, created specifically to evoke an Old World feeling Wes Anderson's Grand Budapest Hotel, and every Catherine Kubrick painting lining the vaunted walls of Stanley's Eyes Wide Shut, there's a distraught William Turner hanging in Sam Mendes' Skyfall (The Fighting Temeraire), an apocalyptic Picasso in Alfonso Cuarón's Children of Men (Guernica), and an ecstatic Pieter Bruegel the Elder in both Lars von Trier's Melancholia as in Tarkovsky's Solaris (Hunters in the Snow).
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After Vermeer's "Maid Asleep" To make it right Vermeer painted then painted over this scene a woman alone at a table the cloth pushed back rough folds at the edge as if someone had risen in haste abandoning the chair beside her a wineglass nearly empty just in her reach Though she's been called idle and drunken a woman drowsing you might see in her gesture melancholia Eyelids drawn she rests her head in her hand Beyond her a still-life white jug bowl of fruit a goblet overturned Before this a man stood in the doorway a dog lay on the floor Perhaps to exchange loyalty for betrayal Vermeer erased the dog and made of the man a mirror framed by the open door Pentimento the word for a painter's change of heart revision on canvas means the same as remorse after sin Were she to rise a mirror behind her the woman might see herself as I did turning to rise from my table then back as if into Vermeer's scene It was after the quarrel after you'd had again too much to drink after the bottle did not shatter though I'd brought it down hard on the table and the dog had crept from the room to hide Later I found a trace of what I'd done bruise on the table the size of my thumb Worrying it I must have looked as she does eyes downcast my head on the heel of my palm In paint a story can change mistakes be undone Imagine Still-Life with Father and Daughter a moment so far back there's still time to take the glass from your hand or mine
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