Depression

A Public Feeling

Ann Cvetkovich (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

296 Seiten

2012
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8223-5223-5 (ISBN)

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Ann Cvetkovich combines memoir and cultural critique in search of ways of writing about depression as a public cultural and political phenomenon rather than as a personal medical pathology.

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.

Ann Cvetkovich is Ellen C. Garwood Centennial Professor of English and Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Texas, Austin. She is the author of An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures, also published by Duke University Press, and Mixed Feelings: Feminism, Mass Culture, and Victorian Sensationalism; a coeditor of Political Emotions; and a former editor of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies.

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

Zusatzinfo	38 illustrations, including 14 in color
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	594 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Krankheiten / Heilverfahren
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Klinische Psychologie
	Studium ► 2. Studienabschnitt (Klinik) ► Pathologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-8223-5223-0 / 0822352230
ISBN-13	978-0-8223-5223-5 / 9780822352235
Zustand	Neuware