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The book includes examples of beauty flowing from embracing the melancholy, and offers advice for moving through loss, allowing pain to inform leadership, and reckoning with the inevitability of death. [9] Bittersweet is based on the premise that "light and dark, birth and death—bitter and sweet—are forever paired". [1]
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The Good Housekeeping Book Club chooses one feel-good book every month to feature as our monthly book club pick. Here's why you'll love them, too. Year in Review: Check Out Every Feel-Good Read ...
In his book Dimensions of Personality (1947) he paired Extraversion (E), which was "the tendency to enjoy positive events", especially social ones, with Neuroticism (N), which was the tendency to experience negative emotions. By pairing the two dimensions, Eysenck noted how the results were similar to the four ancient temperaments.
Against Happiness: In Praise of Melancholy is a nonfiction book by Eric G. Wilson that examines the benefits of being sad. [1] The author denotes in the book that diagnosable conditions should be treated accordingly, and is in no way saying it is "normal" or "good" to be depressed.
USA TODAY's November book club pick is Celeste Ng's unputdownable new dystopian novel, "Our Missing Hearts." Here's why you need to read it.
Melancholia or melancholy (from Greek: µέλαινα χολή melaina chole, [1] meaning black bile) [2] is a concept found throughout ancient, medieval, and premodern medicine in Europe that describes a condition characterized by markedly depressed mood, bodily complaints, and sometimes hallucinations and delusions.
Mary S. Cosgrove, in Horn Book Magazine, calls the poems in Shaker "a lyrical outpouring of seasoned feelings from the heart and mind", and calls Angelou "musical, rhythmical, and enchanting". [18] J.T. Keefe, in World Literature Today, says about Shaker": "Deceptively light and graceful, Maya Angelou's poems are lyrical, emotional, melancholy".