Unpleasant emotional response to isolation

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Ce soir je sors... : ou alors demain plutôt. Pfff! Tu as déjà  dit ça hier / Ligne Azur.

A depressed scholar surrounded by mythological figures; representing the melancholy temperament. Etching by J.D. Nessenthaler, ca. 1750.

Besoin de sexe quand ça ne va pas? : dans ces moments-là, multiplier les rencontres en zappant la capote ne résout rien... : déprime, solitude: le préservatif te protège aussi quand tu es plus vulnérable / SNEG association.

Five mugshots of gay men of different ages with brief descriptions of the freedom of being single; an advertisement by Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V. Colour lithograph by Ingo Taubhorn and Wolfgang Mudra.

A crowd of people sitting in the sun with a tear down the middle to reveal a black triangular cavity; representing the effects of the marginalisation of people with AIDS. Colour lithograph by Enrico Delmastro, ca. 1995.

A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: patients receiving women visitors, but a black soldier has no visitor. Colour lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.

Hands grabbing other hands between the words 'SIDA' (AIDS) and 'solitaire' (lonely) within a starry universe with earth beyond, suggesting the loneliness of having AIDS. Silk screen print by Pierre Bernard, Atelier de Création Graphique - Grapus.

Ethical loneliness : the injustice of not being heard / Jill Stauffer.

Considerações sobre a nostalgia : these que foi apresentada á Faculdade de Medicina do Rio de Janeiro, e sustentada em 11 de dezembro de 1844 / por Joaquim Manoel de Macedo.

The lonely city : adventures in the art of being alone / Olivia Laing.

Loneliness in philosophy, psychology, and literature / Ben Lazare Mijuskovic.

Lonely : learning to live with solitude / Emily White.

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Loneliness

Images from the collections

Images about Loneliness

Works from the collections

Ethical loneliness : the injustice of not being heard / Jill Stauffer.

Considerações sobre a nostalgia : these que foi apresentada á Faculdade de Medicina do Rio de Janeiro, e sustentada em 11 de dezembro de 1844 / por Joaquim Manoel de Macedo.

The lonely city : adventures in the art of being alone / Olivia Laing.

Loneliness in philosophy, psychology, and literature / Ben Lazare Mijuskovic.

Lonely : learning to live with solitude / Emily White.

Loneliness

Images from the collections

Images about Loneliness

Works from the collections

Ethical loneliness : the injustice of not being heard / Jill Stauffer.

Considerações sobre a nostalgia : these que foi apresentada á Faculdade de Medicina do Rio de Janeiro, e sustentada em 11 de dezembro de 1844 / por Joaquim Manoel de Macedo.

The lonely city : adventures in the art of being alone / Olivia Laing.

Loneliness in philosophy, psychology, and literature / Ben Lazare Mijuskovic.

Lonely : learning to live with solitude / Emily White.

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