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Depressive Love - A Social Pathology (Paperback)
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Depressive Love - A Social Pathology (Paperback)
Series: Classical and Contemporary Social Theory
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Love and depression are key elements in the cultural script of
emotions or affectual life within contemporary Western society, and
the two have become intertwined to such an extent that it is
informative to talk about depressive love. Indeed, the most common
source of depression is intimate relationships, in which one
partner is not recognised by the other as being in need or worthy
of loving care. This book addresses the question of how it is
possible for opposite emotional experiences such as love and
depression to appear simultaneously, empirically documenting the
phenomenon of depressive love and its implications through studies
of art, including music, literature and photography, and the
experiences of everyday life, by way of interviews and the analysis
of e-mail-, sms-, messenger-correspondence, and other new media
spaces. Engaging with a range of sociological, psychoanalytic and
philosophical theories of love, depression and emotion, including
the work of Simmel, Alberoni, Barthes, Hochschild, Giddens,
Luhmann, Beck and Beck-Gernsheim, Illouz, Bauman, Hegel, Honneth,
Ehrenberg, Han, Levinas, Sartre, Freud, Lacan, and Kristeva, to
name but a few, the author examines the ways in which depressive
love is expressed in modern society, asking whether it is a new
phenomenon and confined to the West and if not, what is distinctive
about depressive love and its associated (dys)functions in
contemporary Western society. An empirically rich and theoretically
broad study of depressive love as a sign of our times, this book
will appeal to scholars and students of social theory and the
sociology and philosophy of emotion and interpersonal
relationships.
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