/lit/ - Literature

>>10456118
>Hopefully I didn't miss your point by translating it into D&G's Nietzschean side.
Well, it's kinda my own fault for not defining my own terminology, being too abrupt.

The thing is that depression (as I define it and experience it) is to me always a retrospective event. Depression isn't simply being sad at failure or suffering, but one can be depressed at getting precisely what one wanted, even when there was no desire for defeat. It's not a matter of simply giving up because of the inevitable or the impossible, but due to the conditions of the present. It removes from memory any irrelevant experience to the present undesireable condition with: "Yes, but what does it matter that my stomach is full? This was, is and will always be there." -- in that sense, it's precisely against lack as an existential foundation and desire being something that's only rooted in its fulfillment. Rather than giving up, depression is precisely stubbornness in the face of a million other possibilities for escape; therefore why it can be affirmative in the means that it won't let its own pain be ended by an external phenomenon or development. Depression is unbearable out of its desire not to bear. Likewise enlightenment is the cessation of bearing but is conceptually unbearable.

(But that's enough sidetracking; thanks for your time, Anon.)