despair and depression
Oct. 29th, 2009 08:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
adrienmundiKierkegaard on the couch
Philosophy prof Gordon Marino on the Kierkegaardian distinction between despair and depression. Personally, I'm not so sure it's a map with clearly marked borders separating the two. My own despair, as I understand it, feeds my depression, though my depression tends not to feed my despair so much; it's much more self absorbed, self contained (to the extent that anything that colors the subjective perspective of my world can be. I think the distinction, for me, is that depression is always about me in relation to my perception of the world, whereas despair seems like more about the world, without me necessarily as focus).
Philosophy prof Gordon Marino on the Kierkegaardian distinction between despair and depression. Personally, I'm not so sure it's a map with clearly marked borders separating the two. My own despair, as I understand it, feeds my depression, though my depression tends not to feed my despair so much; it's much more self absorbed, self contained (to the extent that anything that colors the subjective perspective of my world can be. I think the distinction, for me, is that depression is always about me in relation to my perception of the world, whereas despair seems like more about the world, without me necessarily as focus).
