/lit/ - Literature

Depression is a very vague diagnoses and a good example of why symptom-based psychological diagnoses from the DSM or ICD are fucking retarded. The psychoanalysts got a lot closer to creating a system and taxonomy describes different types of mental structures and neuroses. It's also a very stupid idea that people think there is such a thing as a normal, mentally healthy structure that is the human default. Everyone fits into the categories of neurotic, psychotic, or perverse. Functional people are just those who's neurosis or psychosis is working for them (or perverts, who are usually quite happy).

I want to be a bit more familiar with Freud and Lacan but I don't wanna invest too much time into reading a bunch of 800 page books that only touch on one of their subjects. Is there any good concise reads that will teach me the basics of these two?

Oh and dream interpretation thread.