Introduction Ashley D. C. Cake A Loving Touch: The Problem of Melancholia and Subjective Coherence in the Age of Technological Reproduction Dariusz Skórczewski Melancholia of the Borderland Discourse: Why Poles Need Postcolonial Therapy (and Why Polish Literary Critics Need Postcolonial Theory) Sean J. McGrath Melancholy, Death, and the Longing for Being in Schelling s Clara Edward Fiała The Shadows of Mother Imago in Witold Gombrowicz s World Miri Mahabad Kuttin The Failure as a Hermeneutic Tool: One Common Interpretative Structure of the Freudian Hermeneutic Stance and of Being and Time Dariusz Pac hocki I m So Terribly Sorry for My Self. Melancholy in the Autobiographical Works of Edward Stachura Francesca Brencio The Nocturnal Point of the Contraction. Hegel and Melancholia Frank Chouraqui Lonely as a Fish: Nietzsche on the Self as Metaphor Rajiv Kaushik The Problem of Memory in Proust: Signification and Time Regained Adam Fitas Karol Ludwik Koniński: Interweaving the Day and Night Rhythm of Life Andrzej Wierciński Melancholia, Depression, Sadness: The Disease of the Soul and the Imperative of the Care for the Soul Index