憂鬱的解剖
《憂鬱的解剖》(英語:;全稱:The Anatomy of Melancholy, What it is: With all the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes, Prognostickes, and Several Cures of it. In Three Maine Partitions with their several Sections, Members, and Subsections. Philosophically, Medicinally, Historically, Opened and Cut Up)一書是由在牛津大學裡牧師兼學者的羅伯特·伯頓撰寫 ,於1621年首次出版。
憂鬱的解剖 The Anatomy of Melancholy | |
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1638年版的卷首插畫 | |
作者 | 羅伯特·伯頓 |
语言 | 英语 |
發行 | |
插圖 | 克里斯田·雷·布龍 (Christian Le Blon) |
出版時間 | 1621 |
出版地點 | 早期英國 |
媒介 | 印刷 |
规范控制 | |
ISBN | N/A |
概述
作者罗伯特伯顿,自称小德谟克利特,是牛津大学学监。他研究范围及其广泛,几乎涵盖人的整个命运。柏顿本人饱受躁狂抑郁症(双向抑郁症)折磨,于是开始着手收集,整理,分析,研究以及诊断,治疗躁狂抑郁症。
這本書從封面外表來看,不過就是一本探討憂鬱症的醫學教科書(其中還包括現在被稱為的臨床抑鬱症)。雖然作為一個醫生介紹的文字,《憂鬱的解剖》其實是一本相當特殊的文學作品,因為其內容以哲學和科學居多,往往超越該書探討的主題。而且此書所謂的「憂鬱」和「解剖」其實是用憂鬱的筆調來剖析人類所有情感和思想表達方式。
羅伯特伯頓把這本書的序言就寫的帶有諷刺的意味,伯頓的人物德謨克利特少年解釋說:「我寫的是繁忙的憂鬱,以避免憂鬱。『剖析』是一個範圍廣泛的文件,其中載有離題和評論。無論其強項,醫療文本或作為一個歷史文件,它是解剖的巨大廣度-解決話題,如消化,小妖精,地理美洲等 和聲音特色,特別是它的作者是最普遍提及其崇拜者為主要來源的吸引力。 」
出版
伯頓的一生中將《憂鬱的解剖》修定和擴充了五次,並經常再版,最近的一次再版是在2001年依據1932年出版的版本重印。此次再版(2001年)和伯頓首次出版年分1621年相差380年。
內容簡介
伯頓定義他的主題如下:
Melancholy, the subject of our present discourse, is either in disposition or in habit. In disposition, is that transitory Melancholy which goes and comes upon every small occasion of sorrow, need, sickness, trouble, fear, grief, passion, or perturbation of the mind, any manner of care, discontent, or thought, which causes anguish, dulness, heaviness and vexation of spirit, any ways opposite to pleasure, mirth, joy, delight, causing frowardness in us, or a dislike. In which equivocal and improper sense, we call him melancholy, that is dull, sad, sour, lumpish, ill-disposed, solitary, any way moved, or displeased. And from these melancholy dispositions no man living is free, no Stoick, none so wise, none so happy, none so patient, so generous, so godly, so divine, that can vindicate himself; so well-composed, but more or less, some time or other, he feels the smart of it. Melancholy in this sense is the character of Mortality. . . . This Melancholy of which we are to treat, is a habit, a serious ailment, a settled humour, as Aurelianus and others call it, not errant, but fixed: and as it was long increasing, so, now being (pleasant or painful) grown to a habit, it will hardly be removed.
《憂鬱的解剖》是一個特別長的書,第一版是四開量近900頁,後來的版本甚至更長。該文本共分為三個主要部分,另外還有ㄧ序言,序言整個寫出伯頓的廣闊的風格。
參考文獻
延伸閱讀
- William Monahan. . Bookforum. Fall 2001 [22 April 2010]. (原始内容存档于2006-11-12). The introduction by author William H. Gass runs just under 10 pages.
外部連結
- The 1638 edition (页面存档备份,存于) on Google Books
- The Anatomy of Melancholy - 古腾堡计划
- The Anatomy of Melancholy (页面存档备份,存于) Online reading and multiple ebook formats at Ex-classics
- The Anatomy of Melancholy at Making of America
- The Anatomy of Melancholy at PsyPlexus
- The Anatomy of Melancholy at Internet Archive – scan of 1896 edition
- The Anatomy of Melancholy (页面存档备份,存于) Librivox audio recording (public domain)