Depression : a public feeling

著者

• Cvetkovich, Ann

書誌事項

Depression : a public feeling

Ann Cvetkovich

Duke University Press, 2012

• : pbk

注記

Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-263) and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

In Depression: A Public Feeling, Ann Cvetkovich combines memoir and critical essay in search of ways of writing about depression as a cultural and political phenomenon that offer alternatives to medical models. She describes her own experience of the professional pressures, creative anxiety, and political hopelessness that led to intellectual blockage while she was finishing her dissertation and writing her first book. Building on the insights of the memoir, in the critical essay she considers the idea that feeling bad constitutes the lived experience of neoliberal capitalism. Cvetkovich draws on an unusual archive, including accounts of early Christian acedia and spiritual despair, texts connecting the histories of slavery and colonialism with their violent present-day legacies, and utopian spaces created from lesbian feminist practices of crafting. She herself seeks to craft a queer cultural analysis that accounts for depression as a historical category, a felt experience, and a point of entry into discussions about theory, contemporary culture, and everyday life. Depression: A Public Feeling suggests that utopian visions can reside in daily habits and practices, such as writing and yoga, and it highlights the centrality of somatic and felt experience to political activism and social transformation.

目次

Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Part I. The Depression Journals (A Memoir) Going Down 29 Swimming 43 The Return 62 Reflections: Memoir as Public Feelings Research Method 74 Part II. A Public Feelings Project (A Speculative Essay) 1. Writing Depression: Acedia, History, and Medical Models 85 2. From Dispossession to Radical Self-Possession: Racism and Depression 115 3. The Utopia of Ordinary Habit: Crafting, Creativity, and Spiritual Practice 154 Epilogue 203 Notes 213 Bibliography 243 Illustration Credits 265 Index 267

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BC12619770
• ISBN:
  • 9780822352389
• 出版国コード: us
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Durham
• ページ数/冊数: xi, 278 p., [8] p. of col. plates
• 大きさ: 23 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : HQ75.15
  • DC23 : 616.85/27
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Queer theory
  • LCSH : Affect (Psychology) -- Political aspects
  • LCSH : Depression, Mental
  • LCSH : Emotions -- Political aspects
  • LCSH : Creative ability -- Psychological aspects
  • LCSH : Autobiography