TY - JOUR
TI - Projekt depatologizacji uczuć negatywnych. O książce Ann Cvetkovich Depression: A Public Feeling
AU - Boruszkowska, Iwona
TI - Projekt depatologizacji uczuć negatywnych. O książce Ann Cvetkovich Depression: A Public Feeling
AB - 
	In the book Depression: A Public Feeling Ann Cvetkovich uses her own memoir of depression as a research material and organizes around it some scientific ideas presented in a critical essay. Cvetkovich’s voice on the matter of depression, whose task was to (re-)introduce private feelings into the public sphere, can be read as an autopathographic analysis of the illness discourse. However, the critical task of her writing is to depathologize depression (to stop describing it as bad or unproductive) and emphasize that it can be valuable in society as a cause of change. Cvetkovich describes and analyzes her own affective and somatic experiences of depression from the very beginning of her academic career. In this article I analyze Cvetkovich’s book as an interesting affective fusion of the depression journal and speculative (critical) essay. The aim of the article is also to point to the link between late capitalism and depression, especially in the sphere of social moods, made by Lauren Berlant and Ann Cvetkovich.
VL - 2017
IS - Numer 2 (32) 2017
PY - 2017
SN - 1897-1962
C1 - 2084-395X
SP - 115
EP - 125
DO - 10.4467/2084395XWI.17.022.7917
UR - https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/wieloglos/artykul/projekt-depatologizacji-uczuc-negatywnych-o-ksiazce-ann-cvetkovich-depression-a-public-feeling
KW - depresja
KW - autobiografia
KW - depatologizacja
KW - afekt
KW - cure writing
KW - okrutny optymizm
KW - esej spekulatywny