MELANCHOLY INTERPRETED IN THE LIGHT OF PRE-SOCRATIC MATERIALISM

Abstract

The basic objective of this article is to show that melancholy, defined here as chronic sadness, has a bodily origin, being caused by a deregulation of the material elements of the physiological apparatus of the human being, this way of understanding the world without a supraphysical, metaphysical and transcendental, that is: materialist, refers to the pre-Socratic thinker: Democritus of the ancient Greek city Abdera. To reach this result, the following variables were listed in the text: acedia, psyche and body; through ancient and contemporary materialism, as an example: neuroscience. This was possible due to the methodology applied for the production of the text, which was characterized by: hypothetical-deductive; bibliographic; qualitative; descriptive and basic-strategic. The justification for this theme was to encourage studies on the melancholic mood state, very present in the 21st century, under the name of depressive disorder. Talking about it is the most efficient way to break the fallacies that exist on the subject.