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[Melancholia as existential condition].

H Feldmann
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Starting from the anthropological understanding and structural analysis of melancholia (Minkowski, E. Straus, von Gebsattel, L. Binswanger, Tellenbach), it is made an attempt to show historicity of man as significant for existential condition. Melancholic patients are basically lacking historical meaning of existence.

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H Feldmann. 1994. [Melancholia as existential condition].. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8145870/

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