The title of WHAT POEM BY ST. JOHN OF THE CROSS, written in 1578 or 1579, is used by Catholic theologians to describe a spiritual crisis of the sort presented in the poem? F. Scott Fitzgerald later adapted the term for other sorts of despair, writing in The Crack-Up that "in a real [BLANK] it is always three o'clock in the morning".
DARK NIGHT OF THE SOUL