Quit Everything: Interpreting Depression (Berardi Franco Bifo)(Paperback)

Analyses the current wave of depression, or "desertion", that is causing more and more people to abandon hope and desire in a world where social, political and environment collapse seems inevitable. According to psychiatrists, depression is spreading among the young generation: in a recent survey published by the New York Times, 54% of people aged 16-25 show symptoms of an impending clinical depression. In Quit Everything, Franco Berardi argues that there is something wrong with these figures. What today is often called "depression", in Berardi's view, is in fact something different entirely: a conscious or unconscious withdrawal of psychological energy and a dis-investment of desire that he defines instead as "desertion". Examples of this desertion are everywhere: the deceleration of social rhythms and psycho-deflation provoked by the traumatic
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