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RU234: DRS DEREK HOOK & STIJN VANHEULE ON LACAN ON DEPRESSION & MELANCHOLIA

Rendering Unconscious Podcast: Psychoanalysis & Culture

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The Lacanian Argument for Depression

Lacanian argument that depression is a moral failing also applies actually to contemporary discourses of depression. That's a kind of moral failing as well in as much as through the medicalization of depression we circumvent the long ongoing work of trying to grapple with something of the singularity of a person's suffering. Yeah and I think connected to that it's also certainly a critique of contemporary society where there is this belief that biomedical explanations would be so powerful that they can help us in treating people, overcoming their problems.

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