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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.
Tempo esquisito, novo livro da psicanalista Maria Rita Kehl, traz para o leitor um conjunto de reflexões e análises, em sua maioria feitas durante o período da quarentena da Covid-19: "Diante de tanta tristeza, escrever foi uma forma de ocupar o espaço do debate público sem romper o isolamento físico. Uma forma de estar com os outros", conta ela no prólogo. Nos textos, Kehl aborda temas recorrentes desde 2019 – início do mandato de Jair Bolsonaro na presidência –, como saúde pública, negacionismo, violência policial, indiferença e desigualdade social. Há artigos, por exemplo, sobre o linchamento do congolês Moïse Kabagambe, no Rio de Janeiro, em 2021, e sobre o assassinat...
This book examines how Gilberto Freyre's notion of mestiçagem (race mixing) became the overwhelmingly dominant narrative of national identity in twentieth-century Brazil. It will be of interest to scholars and students interested in Brazil, Latin America, race, nationalism, national identity, and popular culture.
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"João Biehl's Vita is a greatly arresting work. The tale of Catarina is one that haunts the reader. This book's central character is sure to become an anthropological classic, her humanity reaffirmed by the author."—Arthur Kleinman, author of Writing at the Margin: Discourse between Anthropology and Medicine
Os anos 70 sao lembrados como um periodo de grande efervescencia cultural e conservam um amplo acervo historico-estetico-ideologico ainda nao completamente explorado. Anos 70: Trajetorias e inspirado num evento multidisciplinar e reune textos de diversos autores a respeito das principais discussoes ocorridas no periodo.
Covering more than one hundred years of history, this multidisciplinary collection of essays illuminates the important links between citizenship, national belonging, and popular music in Brazil.
Are postcolonies haunted more by criminal violence than other nation-states? The usual answer is yes. In Law and Disorder in the Postcolony, Jean and John Comaroff and a group of respected theorists show that the question is misplaced: that the predicament of postcolonies arises from their place in a world order dominated by new modes of governance, new sorts of empires, new species of wealth—an order that criminalizes poverty and race, entraps the “south” in relations of corruption, and displaces politics into the realms of the market, criminal economies, and the courts. As these essays make plain, however, there is another side to postcoloniality: while postcolonies live in states of...
A key collection of essays that looks at the specific issues related to the documentary form. Questions addressed include `What is documentary?' and `How fictional is nonfiction?'