Abstract

ABRAS, Rosa Maria Gouvêa. Life without hope:: reflections about depression in contemporaneity. Estud. psicanal. [online]. 2011, n.35, pp. 109-114. ISSN 0100-3437.

The author analyses the relation between depression and post-modernity. She defines the concepts of depression and depressive condition, establishing the differences on the function of the symbolic and the imaginary registers. She also states the importance of the familiar discourse and the direction towards the father, seen in the constitution of such pathologies.

Keywords : Post-modernity; Depression; Depressive condition; Maternal discourse; Trauma.

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