XVII Dominik Lejman: SPRING WITH THE DEPRESSION
05.07. - 13.07.02
SPRING WITH THE DEPRESSION
INSUFFICIENT perspective
Depression derives from failure to perform - identity insecurity, feelings
of insufficiency, responsibility fatigue, dissentification, failed recognition.
In a society based on intiative, the enterpreneurial norms of performance
became the norms of socialization. The subject is compelled to constantly
redefine itself - choose his or her life as if any identity were possible.
We are increasingly prone to depressive states that result from the individual's
inability to meet the demand for speed, flexibility, responsibility, motivation
and initiative. The imperative today is to initiate one's own identity
instead of being disciplined to do so. Depression results from the inability
to follow this perpetual quest for the re-invention of the self in a culture
where "no moral law, no tradition shows from the outside, where the
subject in conflict between the forbidden and permissable is gradually
being replaced by a subject in cleavage between possible and not-possible.
In a contemporary, enterpreneurial society, the self is always a treshold
of being insufficiently istelf, leading to chronic problems of identity
insecurity and the substantial increase of diagnosed cases of depression
in the last thirty years.
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