Abstract:

My thesis formulates an account of melancholy as a soteriological crisis in the writings of the queer American avant-garde writer, Djuna Barnes. A critical account of melancholy is set up via a theoretical intersection of psychoanalysis, philosophical anthropology, and theology. I unfold the ontological structures that support theories of the divided subject across these fields to establish the theoretical ground where they are brought into meaningful contact. Melancholy is established as ...

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