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	Depression as Despair

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11-18-2007 9:13 AM

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depression, self-other, cultural malcontent, r, d, laing, cultural values

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/729b5afc-57c7-43f2-9a1f-f1f2dad0ec0c/37BFD833-9AE7-4EE2-B14B-053E3B65AF48/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.philosophicalsociety.com/Archives/Philosophy%20And%20Depression.htm" href="http://www.philosophicalsociety.com/Archives/Philosophy%20And%20Depression.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">www.philosophicalsociety.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.philosophicalsociety.com/Archives/Philosophy%20And%20Depression.htm"><P align="center"><FONT size="2" color="#000000">"There is little conjunction of truth and social 
      'reality'. Around us are pseudo-events, to which we adjust with a false 
      consciousness adapted to see these events as true and real, and even as 
      beautiful. In the society of men the truth resides now less in what things 
      are than in what they are not. Our social realities are so ugly if seen in 
      the light of exiled truth, and beauty is almost no longer possible if it 
      is not a lie."</FONT></p> <P align="center"><FONT size="2" color="#000000">-- R.D. Laing, <B><I>The Politics Of 
      Experience</I></B></FONT></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.philosophicalsociety.com/Archives/Philosophy%20And%20Depression.htm">aware of a 
      vague anxiety</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.philosophicalsociety.com/Archives/Philosophy%20And%20Depression.htm">He looks out at the world and finds many things to 
      detest: social injustice, the trivialization of modern culture, the apathy 
      of fellow citizens, the slow pace at which society seems to reform itself.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.philosophicalsociety.com/Archives/Philosophy%20And%20Depression.htm">wishes people cared more about issues and ideas, and less about how 
      they look and how much money they have</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.philosophicalsociety.com/Archives/Philosophy%20And%20Depression.htm">six or seven months pass, and this 
      destabilizing feeling metamorphoses into profound despair.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.philosophicalsociety.com/Archives/Philosophy%20And%20Depression.htm">even contemplates 
      suicide.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.philosophicalsociety.com/Archives/Philosophy%20And%20Depression.htm">Should this man be drugged up on Prozac</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/37BFD833-9AE7-4EE2-B14B-053E3B65AF48/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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