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culture

Sorrow is endemic: depression is not failure

Depression exposes something inverted about social logic. It is treated as a personal weakness, yet the condition of not fitting in is the very pressure that gives the idea of “fitting in” its force. The loops of belonging expand endlessly, always moving the target, ensuring that nobody ever quite succeeds. In practice, exclusion is the […]

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Philosophy Psychology

Homeless Fears

There are many kinds of fear. Some of them are straightforward, unproblematic and represent a simple correlation between a concept and the thing it represents. In this sense a fear of a specific animal is usually just that and regardless that arachnophobia, for instance, rarely represents something unconscious or indirect other than a linearly-related fear […]