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Tag: mourning
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Tag: mourning

Depression and the lost object

It is clear from clinical experience that many, if not all, people who present with depression have a experienced a significant loss in their lives.  This may be the loss of a person, but it could also be the loss of a job, a house, or even an idea or …

Leslie Chapman April 12, 2016 October 29, 2018 Anxiety and depression  bereavement / depression / melancholia / mourning / objet a / psychosis
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What are you doing after the Olympics?

I keep thinking about Jean Baudriallard’s essay on obscenity What are you doing after the orgy? 1.  It’s actually the title itself which I find fascinating – and so apt when it comes to the aftermath of the 2012 Olympics.  In a sense it (the title of Baudrillard’s essay) seems absurd, …

Leslie Chapman August 14, 2012 August 14, 2012 Society and culture  2012 Olympics / Baudrillard / mourning
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