Chapter 11, Remedies Against Discontents Summary and Analysis

This is the continuation of the Cure of Melancholy. The main sections considered here are: Mind Rectified by Mirth, Remedies Against Discontents, Against Melancholy Itself, Medicinal Physic. This Partition begins like the two that came before it. There is a schema at the front that sets out the differing forms of Love-Melancholy, and how to cure them. The author writes, soon thereafter, that love is a type of melancholia. This does not initially make sense. He goes on to write that love is a wonderful thing and that anyone who loves is also worthy of love. In subsection 2 he begins to explain the various types of love and the objects of love. He writes that love and hate are often found close together, and that both are powerful. He writes that the melancholies connected with...