THE DEPRESSION AND CONTEMPORANEITY: NOTES ABOUT THE SOCIAL SYMPTOM

Abstract

In contemporary times, the predominance of some clinical symptoms and ways of subjectivities can be intrinsically related to the characteristics of the current culture. The present studies has a goal to discuss the depression as a social symptom in contemporary times. It was perform an academic study as from the literature review based on articles and books which deal with the present topic. It was noticed that the contemporary times is made of an amazing and narcissist society which is a producer of depression feelings and wishes for an enjoyment without limits and satisfaction at all costs, what has become too hard to the people. In this sense, the depression comes as a malaise that shows the disagreement and the emptiness to not correspond to the ideals of current culture. The consulted literature shows that the term depression has been used as a meaning to name several feelings, for example the sadness which has been suggested as a synonym for depression. Besides that, it was possible to recognize that the majority cases diagnosed as "depression" in the mental health devices are treated through the medication that sometimes considers as a priority the symptom rather than the individual. Thereby, it concludes that the clinic listening, specifically the psychoanalytic, comes up as an alternative of medication, the individual uniqueness instead of the focus on pathology.