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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 Orientation to Depression

In the book there's a bunch of chapters on melancholia and what it means if melancholia is to be seen within the broader structure of psychosis, that's the other one. And then also just to say something about why Lacanians are so critical about the concept of depression. So I think for both of us that was a really crucial task particularly given how free and easy we hear this language of depression being applied left, right and center all the time in a rather amorphous master signifier kind of way. Yeah and very important because you don't often see that being addressed. It does seem like there might be an opening somewhere but often when I see that and I get excited

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