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Time and the Dog - Maria Rita Kehl

Time and the Dog

Society and Depression

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Buch | Softcover
304 Seiten
2026 | Paperback original
Verso Books (Verlag)
978-1-78663-030-8 (ISBN)
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The relationship of depression to contemporary capitalist society
As capitalism takes over all the hours of our conscious life, it is also invading our subconscious-there is no time to take respite from the economic treadmill. The rising mental health problems throughout the world can no longer be seen as personal or family failings, but as responses to a desperate political and economic system. Maria Rita Kehl is a psychoanalyst who has worked with depressive patients for many years. In this groundbreaking new book, she examines the relationship of depression to contemporary capitalism. She begins by exploring the symbolic role of melancholy from the classical era to the middle of the twentieth century, showing how depression moved from the public realm of the aesthetic field to the privacy of the psychoanalytic clinic. This is followed by an examination of the role of time in our understanding of depression, drawing on the work of Benjamin and Bergson. Finally, Kehl looks at the clinical treatment of depression from the psychoanalytic perspective, drawing a distinction between the subjective and circumstantial dynamics. This book will change how we see depression today.

Maria Rita Kehl was born in Campinas, Brazil. She was a journalist from 1974 to 1981, publishing articles in diverse newspapers and journals in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. She edited the culture section in the journals, Movement and Em Tempo, that opposed the military dictatorship. A Doctor in Psychoanalysis from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, she has worked since 1981 as a psychoanalyst in clinics for adults in São Paulo. In 2006, she began clinical work at the Florestan Fernandes National School of the Rural Landless Workers' Movement (MST) in Guararema, São Paulo. In 2010, she received the Jabuti Prize for the best non-fiction book of the year for Time and the Dog. She was a member of the National Truth Commission from 2012 to 2015.

Erscheinungsdatum
Übersetzer Robert Sean Purdy
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 129 x 198 mm
Gewicht 400 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie der Neuzeit
Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie
Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Persönlichkeitsstörungen
Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie
Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Sozialpsychologie
ISBN-10 1-78663-030-3 / 1786630303
ISBN-13 978-1-78663-030-8 / 9781786630308
Zustand Neuware
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