Interestingly, Albrecht Dürer's engraving Melancholia I (1514) is thought to portray melancholia as "the state of waiting for inspiration to strike, and not necessarily as a depressive affliction". Seems like the author sees it in a similar way (an opportunity for reflection).
Glorifying melancholy does not automatically make it a sensible state to be in.
It seems that as the self-help mania withers down, the pendulum swings right back to embracing suffering as normal state of affairs. Is there no creativity in the realm of human happiness (we keep trying the same old same old for centuries)?
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[ 2.9 ms ] story [ 18.1 ms ] threadIt seems that as the self-help mania withers down, the pendulum swings right back to embracing suffering as normal state of affairs. Is there no creativity in the realm of human happiness (we keep trying the same old same old for centuries)?
2. I am ignorant of heretical ideas in the field of positive psychology.