Abstract
This article is part of a book forum on Donald Capps’s At Home in the World: A Study in Psychoanalysis, Religion, and Art. Commentary on the book is offered, and, in terms of future writing on male melancholia, it is suggested that the paradoxical notion of “melancholic happiness” be explored in terms of men’s religious sensibilities.
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Carlin, N. A Review of Donald Capps’s At Home in the World . Pastoral Psychol 64, 515–521 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11089-013-0579-8
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