What does it mean for an immigrant to be a “good” mother? Asian immigrants in Canada experience pressures to assimilate to a “normal,” homogenous ideal of Canadian culture—to erase aspects of their own cultural identity as well as their diasporic history. Asian mothers specifically are subject to mothering ideologies that depict white, middle-class, happy mothers as the norm. This thesis examines literary depictions of this phenomenon in novels by Kerri Sakamoto, Hiromi Goto, and Madeleine Thien. Each of these authors offers representations of motherhood that counter racialized and gendered ideals of mothering, and that refuse to ignore the sometimes traumatic effects that diaspora can have on immigrant families. Through David Eng and Shinhee Han’s notion of “racial melancholia”, I argue that the mothers in these novels conduct “maternal melancholia,” a form of motherwork that subverts dominant ideologies of mothering, resists assimilation, and sustains losses incurred through racialization and diaspora.

This thesis traces the re-conceptualisation of melancholia as a biomedical mental disease in Victorian medicine, with an emphasis on the uptake of physiology into British psychological medicine. Language appropriated from experimental physiology allowed physicians to speak about ‘disordered emotion’ as a physiological process occurring when the brain was subjected to repeated ‘irritation’. When it came to diagnosing asylum patients, however, internal biological explanations of disease were of little use. Instead the focus was on externally observable ‘symptoms’, chiefly ‘depression’, ‘mental pain’, and ‘suicidal tendencies’. The late-nineteenth-century symptomatology of melancholia was in part constituted through statistical practices put in place by the Lunacy Commission, and which emphasised certain symptoms and nosological categories in the diagnosing of asylum patients. At the same time, the symptoms that emerged as defining criteria of melancholia were theorised within a biological explanatory framework. Thus, diagnostic descriptions of melancholia travelled back and forth between the casebook and the textbook, producing a disease concept that on the surface displayed remarkable coherence yet simultaneously spoke volumes about the negotiations that take place when medicine seeks to neatly label and classify the complexities of human life. In sum, this thesis shows how melancholia was constituted as a modern diagnostic category in nineteenth-century British medicine. In doing so, it also tells the story of how ‘disordered emotion’ was made into a possible and plausible medical concept.

This thesis examines the relationships between fictional narratives and material objects through writing and sculptural practice. Its purpose is to explore how fiction assists in an understanding of the world we inhabit and, conversely, how our experiences of the world and its real and physically accessible contents (or objects) prevent fiction from transgressing into nonsense. It is anticipated that the combination of material practice and textual fiction will not be an easy marriage: it may be the objects which ultimately give presence to our voices, voices which historically have often attempted to claim and own of things through utterance. The sculptural component of the project addresses the tactility of objects and examines the space where so many tales are told – the home. In so doing, the project explores issues of isolation and connection through objects and materials which harbour a narrative of ostensible comfort. Objects may simultaneously project conflicting accounts of comfort and unease, connection and isolation, contributing to an articulated consciousness of the home.

Background:Various amalgamation diseases which the ESRD patient of may suffer from have already had quite a lot of research to latter stage abroad .Recently, Abroad research find The ESRD patient in carry on extended dialysis can exert an influence or appear melancholy mood to psychological condition their treat .Extended dialysis may influence its medical resource to use or increase mortality.It gradually become to a topic. Objectives¡GThis study explores the prevelance of ESRD with melancholia and finds out if there are any significant difference upon demography status, comorbodities, dialysis therapy, utilization of health care between ESRD with melancholia and without melancholia.As well as we will discuss the risk factors of ESRD patient with melancholia. Methods¡GWe conducted secondary data analysis with admnstrative data of National Health Insurance between 2000, 2002, 2004 and 2006. We firstly seleced the patients diagnosed as ESRD and melancholia, and merged the data set and other related variables.The data was analyzed by Chi-square test, t-test and logistic regression. Result¡GThe prevelance of ESRD with melancholia were 0.47%(2000), 0.73%(2002),1.27%(2004), 1.34%(2008)¡FESRD patients with and without melancholia was significant difference (p < 0.0001) between sex, dialysis therapy, dialysis duration, and the regions of hospital organizations, class of hospital organizations. ESRD patients with and without melancholia was significant difference (p < 0.0001) between age, comorbidities, dialysis duration, outpatient visits and expenditures. Conclusion¡GThe study was benefited by large sample of adminstative data, but there were some limitation of precision of diagnoses and payment issue of health care system, therefore, we strongly suggested further study could be conducted by research questionnaires to make up the weakness of adminstatrative data.

This thesis examines the relationships between fictional narratives and material objects through writing and sculptural practice. Its purpose is to explore how fiction assists in an understanding of the world we inhabit and, conversely, how our experiences of the world and its real and physically accessible contents (or objects) prevent fiction from transgressing into nonsense. It is anticipated that the combination of material practice and textual fiction will not be an easy marriage: it may be the objects which ultimately give presence to our voices, voices which historically have often attempted to claim and own of things through utterance. The sculptural component of the project addresses the tactility of objects and examines the space where so many tales are told – the home. In so doing, the project explores issues of isolation and connection through objects and materials which harbour a narrative of ostensible comfort. Objects may simultaneously project conflicting accounts of comfort and unease, connection and isolation, contributing to an articulated consciousness of the home.

CoordenaÃÃo de AperfeiÃoamento de Pessoal de NÃvel Superior / A melancolia à uma afecÃÃo psÃquica caracterizada por dor profunda e terrÃvel sofrimento. Seus estudos ainda hoje despertam questionamentos e querelas no meio psicanalÃtico, principalmente no que se refere a sua categorizaÃÃo como neurose ou psicose. Neste trabalho, partiu-se da dificuldade constatada por meio de revisÃo bibliogrÃfica, tanto em Freud como em autores da atualidade, em precisar o objeto alvo da identificaÃÃo nessa afecÃÃo. Pensar qual a natureza desse encadeamento à importante para se conceber mais especificamente aspectos da clÃnica com sujeitos que padecem dessa estrutura. Nesse contexto, essa pesquisa pretendeu contribuir para o esclarecimento do processo de identificaÃÃo ao que Freud denominou como objeto perdido na melancolia â o qual dà um colorido peculiar a essa afecÃÃo â e lanÃar luzes sobre os debates atuais que envolvem a clÃnica da melancolia. Para tanto, o percurso metodolÃgico se concentrou em duas frentes principais: o estudo do conceito de identificaÃÃo e o desenvolvimento da concepÃÃo de objeto por Freud e a sua releitura estabelecida por Lacan. A partir disso, empreendeu-se uma reflexÃo acerca do que à particular da melancolia, ilustrando os achados dessa pesquisa por meio do caso clÃnico de Louis Althusser, parte final deste trabalho. Um ponto destacou-se dentre os resultados da pesquisa, qual seja: que o objeto alvo da identificaÃÃo melancÃlica, ao qual Freud nomeara de objeto perdido, nÃo à o objeto como causa de desejo, mas sim, o objeto a em sua face real, tal como proposto por Lacan no seu seminÃrio sobre a angÃstia. Esse processo à governado pela identificaÃÃo primÃria ao pai da prÃ-histÃria pessoal, nÃo simbolizada pela identificaÃÃo ao traÃo unÃrio â ou seja, pela incidÃncia do Nome-do-Pai â modelo que se observa especialmente na psicose. Esse fator explica vÃrios aspectos clÃnicos dessa estrutura, como a submissÃo ao impÃrio da Coisa por aÃÃo da pulsÃo de morte, a constituiÃÃo do eu e o suicÃdio. / Melancholia is a psychological disorder characterized by deep and terrible suffering and pain. Its studies still evokes questions among psychoanalytical society, particularly as regards its categorization as neurosis or psychosis. In this work, the authors started with the difficulty found through literature review, both in Freud and in today's authors, in specify the object concerning of the identification in this affection. Thinking about the nature of this linked chain is important to understand more specific clinical aspects with subjects suffering with this structure. In this context, this research intended to contribute to the clarification of the identification process to what Freud called as lost object in melancholia â which gives a peculiar coloring to this condition â and shed a light on current debates surrounding this clinic. Consequently, the methodological approach was focused in two paths: the study of the concept of identification and the development of the object term by Freud and its rereading established by Lacan. From this, the authors analyzed what is particular of melancholia, illustrating these findings through clinical case of Louis Althusser, final part of this paper. One detail shone through the research results, namely: that the target of the melancholic identification, to which Freud had named the lost object, it is not the object as cause of desire, but the object in its real face, as proposed by Lacan in his seminar on anxiety. This process is controlled by primary identification to the father of personal prehistory, not symbolized by the identification to the unary trait â that is, by the incidence of the Name of the Father â a model that is observed especially in psychosis. This factor explains various clinical aspects of this structure, as the submission to the empire oh the Thing by the action of the death instinct, the constitution of the self and suicide.

Painting reflection based on reading the book Melancholia/it's forms and metamorphoses from the ancient times to the present.

A defined group of medical records was surveyed for patients who showed onset of major depression with melancholic features while taking an antidepressant medication. Nine cases resulted. In all the antidepressants being taken while melancholia began were SSRIs and the melancholic depression remitted rapidly with the first treatment given, bupropion in five males, nortriptyline with triiodothyronine in two females, and ECT in one male and one female. This suggests that patients who take SSRIs and are melancholic respond well to bupropion, nortriptyline, or ECT. These observations complement reports of low responsivity of melancholic depression to SSRIs and distinctions between melancholic and nonmelancholic depressions.

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Thesis advisor: Kevin Ohi / Thesis advisor: Kayla Walczyk / Fiction, in that it need not position itself at a safe distance from melancholia in order to point at with a theoretical probe, presents a more accurate vision of the melancholic structure. Instead of simply describing and defining melancholia, fiction can inhabit the space of the pathology. In this way, it can perform the consuming and debilitating suffering that ensues after the experience of an inexpressible loss. In doing so, it can force the reader to experience in the act of reading what it would be like to meet melancholia in all its disturbing allure and destructive capacities. Certain fictional representations of loss, in the way they pull their readers into a melancholic vortex, profoundly enact the difficulties that result in this encounter. The capacity of fiction to render the melancholic structure in all its complexity is evident in Marguerite Duras’ The Ravishing of Lol Stein and in Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse. In the way these texts perform the dynamics of the melancholic structure, they push beyond the precipice of where scientific language is forced to stop. This reading of The Ravishing of Lol Stein and To the Lighthouse is not an attempt to psychoanalyze fictional characters or the authors who created them; such a study is highly speculative and relatively unproductive. It is an attempt to recognize how melancholy seems to be functioning in and performed by these texts, and in this interpretive schema, recognizing how fiction can do what theory cannot. / Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2018. / Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: Departmental Honors. / Discipline: English.