Melancholy Through Emotion

The history of melancholy has come a long way of which has also advanced in many aspects. For one, the thought of melancholy and the reasoning of why some experience it comes from a wide range. Overall, the melancholy closely relates and carries along with psychology. More importantly, the emotional aspect of the brain is where melancholy can originate from. Zimmerman explains melancholy as "making sense of the alleged relationship between the torments of Love, Grief, and Fear and the vitiation of pneuma and other vital fluids in the body". If this is kept in mind, the mind and the body are both effected by melancholy of which symptoms and reasonings are both contributing. Later in the article, Zimmerman touched on the idea of melancholy and relationship conceptions. One notable story involves Narcissus and Echo. To begin, Narcissus is born with no success of love through a few years f life as a young boy. In later upcoming years, Echo comes along and recognizes him for what his features entail. Echo goes out of her way to look and ask, talk, and get his attention, seeking for love to him. She then gets rejected and dissipates into thin air. Time passes by when Narcissus sees a reflection he can see but cannot touch or have. He begins to feel grief and becomes sorrowful. The feeling enlarges and each time the reflection is seen at the pool return after return. To see something, and want it when known that you cannot have it causes a whirl of emotions some cannot begin to deconstruct. The imagery used through this story alludes to the idea of melancholy and the ways that humoral psychology does closely relate to the concept of melancholy. 

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/articles/201806/loss-love