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Authentic self-realization and depression
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In this paper, the authors argue that the expectation of lasting fulfilment of authentic self-realization may be regarded as a chronic stress factor for the individual and risks creating depression, and that treatment with antidepressants fits into this interpretive frame.Abstract:
The central point of this article is that the burgeoning depression rates of our day may be understood in relation to the normative demand for self-realization with which contemporary western individuals are confronted. The article argues that the expectation of lasting fulfilment of authentic self-realization may be regarded as a chronic stress factor for the individual and risks creating depression. The modern view of depression supports this perspective. Depression is today regarded as the precise opposite of successful self-realization, and consequently, as a repression of life’s possibilities for self-realization. The article also discusses how treatment with antidepressants fits into this interpretive frame — how antidepressants can be regarded as a kind of action technique which can support the individual in attempts to realize his or her authentic self. Finally, the article discusses the possible problems which may arise from this treatment approach.read more
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Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age
TL;DR: In this paper, the self: ontological security and existential anxiety are discussed, as well as the trajectory of the self, risk, and security in high modernity, and the emergence of life politics.
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Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age
TL;DR: In the context of a post-traditional order, the self becomes a reflexive project as mentioned in this paper, which is not a term which has much applicability to traditional cultures, because it implies choice within plurality of possible options, and is 'adopted' rather than 'handed down'.
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The New Spirit of Capitalism
Luc Boltanski,Eve Chiapello +1 more
TL;DR: A century after the publication of Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the "Spirit" of Capitalism, a major new work examines network-based organization, employee autonomy and post-Fordist horizontal work structures.
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The Politics of Recognition
TL;DR: A number of strands in contemporary politics turn on the need, sometimes the demand, for recognition as discussed by the authors, and the demand for recognition in these latter cases is given urgency by the supposed links between recognition and identity, where this latter term designates a person's understanding of who they are, of their fundamental defining characteristics as a human being.
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The Ethics of Authenticity
TL;DR: In this article, a discussion of ideas and ideologies from Nietzsche to Gail Sheehy, from Allan Bloom to Michel Foucault, sorts out the good from the harmful in the modern cultivation of an authentic self.