La acedia como forma de malestar en la sociedad actual

Abstract

Based on Theunissen's proposition, we carried out an archeological investigation into the concept of melancholia in the ancient world and acedia in medieval times. In doing so we compare the concept to fatigue, boredom and sadness found in today's the culture. Charbonneau and Legrand (2003) called these problems paradepressions of problems, often infra-symptomatic and too transient and insignificant to be described as symptoms. © 2009 Associação Universitária de Pesquisa em Psicopatologia Fundamental/University Association for Research in Fundamental Psychopathology.