Naslov
Being marked as different : the emotional politics of experiences of depression and migrant belongings
(Being marked as different : the emotional politics of expiriences of depression and migrant belonging)

Autori
Kokanović, Renata ; Božić-Vrbančić, Senka

Izvornik
Emotion Space and Society (1755-4586) 16 (2015), S.I.; 130-137

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, članak, znanstveni

Ključne riječi
Depression and migration ; Illness life stories ; Anxiety and subjectivity ; Judith Butler ; Jacques Lacan

Sažetak
This article asks the question: “What does it mean to think about ‘home’ and ‘belonging’ when migratory experience is enmeshed with the story of depression?”. The article focuses on the personal story of a woman who migrated from the United States (US) to Australia, and whose sense of disconnection and displacement in relation to everyday life is embedded within a narrative of depression. Our discussion of her twin narratives of emotional distress and migration is located within theoretical debates about depression, migration and the constitution of subjectivity. In particular, we draw on psychoanalytical approaches to subjectivity to argue that her emotional distress and the medical diagnosis of depression together represent a form of ‘experienc[ing] oneself as a subject’ (Butler, 2005), and function as a precondition to her narrative of migration. Ultimately, we conclude, the woman's intertwined narratives of depression and migration operate simultaneously to provide retroactive order to her subjectivity.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Etnologija i antropologija

Napomena
S.I.: Moving Feelings : Emotions and the Process of Migration ; Loretta Baldassar i Paolo Boccagni (gost ur.)

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