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Re/Imagining Depression: Creative Approaches to "Feeling Bad"

Re/Imagining Depression: Creative Approaches to "Feeling Bad"

Hollenbach, Julie
McDonald, Robin Alex

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AnthropologyGeneral Psychology

ISBN10: 3030805565
ISBN13: 9783030805562
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Sep 23 2022
Pages: 219
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.51 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

What is depression? An imagined sun, bright and black at the same time? A noonday demon? In literature, poetry, comics, visual art, and film, we witness new conceptualizations of depression come into being. Unburdened by diagnostic criteria and pharmaceutical politics, these media employ imagery, narrative, symbolism, and metaphor to forge imaginative, exploratory, and innovative representations of a range of experiences that might get called depression. Texts such as Julia Kristeva's Black Sun: Depression and Melancholia (1989), Andrew Solomon's The Noonday Demon (2000), Allie Brosh's cartoons, Adventures in Depression (2011) and Depression Part Two (2013), and Lars von Trier's film Melancholia (2011) each offer portraits of depression that deviate from, or altogether reject, the dominant language of depression that has been articulated by and within psychiatry. Most recently, Ann Cvetkovich's Depression: A Public Feeling (2012) has answered the author's own call for a multiplication of discourses on depression by positing crafting as one possible method of working through depression-as-impasse.

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