Ever felt so melancholic about the ill-fate hunger serves to
countless souls and stomachs across the world? If yes, your melancholy could
have possibly been caused because you took an extra serving of dessert at a
friend’s party a few years earlier. This is hypothesised as per a gentleman
named Christian Heinroth’s (1773-1843) views on melancholy as a psychic
disorder. I shall be talking more about his
theory in this post later. At least my mind can easily digest that there can be
some reason in his proposed relation between the dessert and hunger. What it
cannot easily gulp down is another gentleman named Shlomo Sigismund Freud’s
view that an intensely repressed sexual instinct could have prompted you to
take the extra serving of dessert that night. The world knows this gentleman
better as Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) – the father of psychoanalytics.
Err... I have been reading an interesting and very heavy
(size-wise and content-wise) book called ‘Sigmund Freud & The science of
psychoanalytics’ recently. I know it sounds a bit weird but I can assure you
all of my mental health while writing this post. It is a passing reference to
Heinroth and his work in the book that stimulated this thought in me that has
emanated as this article. Yes.. now you may understand what the WTK means. If you can bear with this kolaveri, read on further.
