Understanding Depressive Feelings as Situated Affections
Emotion Review, cilt.14, sa.1, ss.55-65, 2022 (SSCI, Scopus)
- Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
- Cilt numarası: 14 Sayı: 1
- Basım Tarihi: 2022
- Doi Numarası: 10.1177/17540739211057846
- Dergi Adı: Emotion Review
- Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus, Psycinfo
- Sayfa Sayıları: ss.55-65
- Anahtar Kelimeler: phenomenology of depression, extended affectivity, situatedness, intercorporeality, interaffectivity
- Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
© The Author(s) 2021.Phenomenologists define social impairments as key aspects of depression and argue that depression is irreducible to the individual. In this article I aim to further elaborate this non-reductionist notion of depression by claiming that depression not only corresponds to an impaired experience of social relations, but also arises from a socially impaired world. To pursue this goal, I will challenge the understanding of depression as an affective disorder blocking the affective communication between individual and environment. I will redefine feelings of depression as situated affections, and hence suggest that (1) they are products of the individual's situatedness in a depressogenic environment and (2) they function in initiating an active withdrawal from such environment.