Naslov
The reduction of melancholy to depression: what is being lost?

Autori
Matijašević, Željka

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, neobjavljeni rad, znanstveni

Skup
Psychoanalysis and Politics: Psychodynamics in Times of Austerity

Mjesto i datum
Lisabon, Portugal, 18.05.2018. - 20.05.2018

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Pozvano predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
Melancholy ; depression ; manic defense ; introjection

Sažetak
The cultural history of melancholy reveals melancholy as always stretched between two poles: redemption and self-annihilation. The psychiatric and social reduction of melancholy to depression has deprived melancholy of its redemptive, creative pole to produce depression as chemical imbalance, but also as a disposition which is non-productive, non-profitable, and, therefore, very anti-capitalist. In his book Capitalist realism (2009) Mark Fisher points out how other than indicating some fundamental kind of affective problem with late capitalism, depression is a specific form of the privatization of stress as there is no availability of cultural language of disaffection and discontent, i.e. of productive boredom. My paper tackles upon the paradox that the becoming of the ‘proper’ subject in capitalism necessary involves the acceptance of immoderation, self- destruction and counter- depressive intensity gone astray, as capitalism knows no moderation, but subsists due to the surplus – economic and psychological.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Psihologija

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