Although the name refers to a female character, there is no reason for a male not to suffer. It is a feeling of dissatisfaction, a depression for not achieving the goals desired in life, most of the time for being illusory or out of reach. The French writer Gustave Flaubert described this behavior in his novel Madame Bovary (1856) where the protagonist feels overwhelmed sentimentally, economically and sexually by the dull life she leads with her husband, far from those described in romantic novels and folletines; so look for lovers and take on debts that are never enough to satisfy it.
