Lyn Cowan
The Blue Shadows of Melancholy
Images in a Melancholic Eye
March 19-20, 2004

 

Books by Lyn Cowan

Portrait of the Blue Lady: The Character of Melancholy. (Spring Journal, September 2004)
Tracking the White Rabbit: A Subversive View of Modern Culture (Routledge, 2003)
Dismantling the Animus. (Published on-line: http://www.cgjungpage.org/content/view/105.1993)
On Masochism: A Jungian View. (Spring Publications, 1982)

Recommended Books

Hillman, James. Re-Visioning Psychology (Harper, 1975).
Burton, Robert. The Anatomy of Melancholy (Several editions since the 17th century).
James, William. The Varieties of Religious Experience (several editions since 1901).
Klibansky, R., Panofsky, E., and Saxl, F. Saturn and Melancholy (Thos. Nelson & Sons, Ltd. 1964).
Stein, Murray. "The Devouring Father," in Fathers and Mothers (Spring Publications, 1973)
Wenzel, Sigfried. The Sin of Sloth: Acedia in Medieval Thought and Literature (University of North Carolina Press, 1967)
Jamison, Kay Redfield. Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament (The Free Press [Macmillan], 1993)
Jackson, Stanley W., M.D., Melancholia and Depression (Yale University Press, 1986, paperback) (Good history, not much interpretation or original ideas)