Saturn: star of melancholy - psychiatry in literature.

Abstract

Celebrated ‘Saturn and Melancholy: Studies in the History of Natural Philosophy, Religion and Art’, by Klibansky et al, was published in English by the Warburg Institute in London in 1964. Saturn is our solar system's furthest planet visible to the naked eye, hence the darkest. Aby, an emotionally unstable and volatile child, rejected his family's religious practices and married Mary Hertz, daughter of a senator and member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church Synod against their wishes.