Melancholy [ Feelings & Emotions ]
… society and regarded its activities as sham and a waste of time, or else sought out seclusion in order to indulge in self-pleasing fantasy, sociability was widely seen as a potential cure. This was the course advocated by religious … melancholy was always the very antithesis of sociability. The melancholy individual sought out solitariness, regarded himself or herself (though it was originally thought to be a mainly male affliction) 1 as unfit for company, and was … /I will no light nor company, /I find it now my misery.’ (Burton 12) The melancholy that begins as self-pleasing, as the indulgence of one’s own daydreams, speculations and above all one’s own company, can become self-pitying, self-loathing, …
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