Melancholy
As a melancholic (from Latin melancolicus , “black gall , melancholisch”, from ancient Greek μέλας mélas , German “black” and χολή cholḗ , “bile”), in today's colloquial language one becomes melancholy , that is melancholy, gloom and sadness , but also mistrust and criticism-prone. Together with the choleric , phlegmatic and sanguine, he forms the four temperaments that are now considered obsolete , which are based on humoral pathology .
In a positive sense, the melancholic is ascribed reliability and self-control.
Concept development
Hildegard von Bingen writes " [Melancholy women] have lean flesh, thick veins, moderate bones and more red-blue than blood-colored blood, and have a face as if interspersed with blue or black color, etc. "
According to Hans Jürgen Eysenck , the melancholy temperament is characterized by the combination of emotional instability with introversion .
The development of a person's character traits is, however, judged more differently by today's personality psychology ; many other factors are involved in their formation.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Konrad Goehl : Guido d'Arezzo the Younger and his 'Liber mitis'. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1984 (= Würzburg medical-historical research. Volume 32), Volume 2, p. 746.
- ↑ Hildegard von Bingen: healing knowledge in the Gutenberg-DE project
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