The pathologization of women’s depression covers over the social and institutional causes of that symptomology. Insofar as patriarchal values continue to devalue and debase women and mothers in ways that colonize psychic space, and depression becomes a cover for what I call ‘social melancholy.’ This is not the melancholy of traditional psychoanalysis, but a form of melancholy that results from oppression, domination, and the colonization of psychic space. Social melancholy differs from both Freud’s notion of melancholy in that it is the result of social factors that constitute the depressed subject as ashamed and lacking agency. Crucial to my analysis is a distinction between shame and guilt missing from traditional psychoanalytic accounts of melancholy and depression.

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羞耻、抑郁和社交忧郁

女性抑郁症的病理化涵盖了该症状的社会和制度原因。就父权制价值观继续以殖民精神空间的方式贬低和贬低女性和母亲而言，抑郁成为我所谓的“社会忧郁”的掩饰。这不是传统精神分析的忧郁，而是一种由精神空间的压迫、支配和殖民所导致的忧郁。社会忧郁不同于弗洛伊德的忧郁概念，因为它是社会因素的结果，使抑郁的主体感到羞耻和缺乏能动性。对我的分析至关重要的是，传统精神分析对忧郁和抑郁的描述中遗漏了羞耻和内疚之间的区别。