Time and the dog the current situation of depressions - by Maria Rita Kehl

Psychoanalyst and writer Maria Rita Kehl starts from the assumption that depression is a contemporary social symptom to develop the three essays that make up the book: Time and the dog, the currentity of depressions.Written based on experiences and reflections on contact with depressive patients, the book addresses a topic that, despite being much discussed, is little understood and even less accepted today. To approach it, Maria Rita provides an overview of the symbolic place occupied by melancholy, from classical antiquity until the mid-20th century, when Freud brought this signifier from the field of aesthetic representations to that of the psychoanalytic clinic. For her, 'Freud privatized the concept of melancholy; its former place as a social symptom returned under the name of depression.