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The weariness of the self: diagnosing the history of depression in the contemporary age
Alain Ehrenberg
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Frontmatter
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Acknowledgments (page ix)
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Foreword by Allan Young (page xi)
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Preface (page xiii)
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Introduction: The Sovereignty of the Self or the Return of Nervousness (page 3)
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PART ONE | A SICK SELF
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1. The Birth of the Psychic Self (page 21)
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2. Electroconvulsive Therapy: Technique, Mood, and Depression (page 45)
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3. The Socialization of an Indefinable Pathology (page 70)
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PART TWO | THE TWILIGHT OF NEUROSIS
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4. The Psychological Front: Guilt without an Instruction Manual (page 106)
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5. The Medical Front: New Avenues for the Depressive Mood (page 136)
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PART THREE | THE INADEQUATE INDIVIDUAL
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6. The Depressive Breakdown (page 166)
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7. The Uncertain Subject of Depression, or End-of-the-Century Individuality (page 190)
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Conclusion: The Weight of the Possible (page 230)
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Notes (page 235)
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Bibliography (page 297)
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Index (page 333)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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CS | 39.6 (2010): 697-698 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/25762859 |
Sociologisk Forskning | 48.1 (2011): 62-64 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/41203049 |
AJS | 116.5 (2011): 1699-1701 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/659014 |
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Published: c2010
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
- 9780773578708 (ebook)
- 9780773546486 (paper)
- 9780773536258 (hardcover)