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That one book that'll bring a man out of the depths of depression when it's caused by his immediate environment he can't remive himself from. What's her name, /lit/?

>> No.6619138

Stop posting that ugly butter cunts face.

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>>6619138
But it makes me feel better. :(

>> No.6619162

>>6619129
Who is this spunk punk?

>> No.6619164

>>6619129
if you need a book to bring you out of depression i feel like it´s alklready too late for you. but nietzsche's works i guess... skip birth of tragedy, start with human all too human and go on chronologically. leave zarathustra for last

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Third Policeman or smth
>>6619162
Reagan

>> No.6619269

>>6619164
This. Nietzsche's love of life is really infectious. I think it's that it's heartfelt and obviously not a cover for gloating about a particularly happy life (which he didn't have).

>> No.6619283

>>6619269
Yep, Nietzsche loved life with the passion that a virgin loves sex.

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>>6619283
You're heartless, Auntie.

>> No.6619299

The bible of course

>> No.6619301

>>6619164
2nding this, Nietzsche has helped me quite a bit. It didn't remove depression, but now I don't feel down for longer periods of time anymore, and even in depression I find a certain joy, it's both like a ride and a struggle. In short, it has transformed the way I am depressed rather than removed depression altogether.
Another thing that helped but you might not be interested is reading some of Foucault's works on mental illness and psychiatry which kinda stopped me from thinking so much about who I really am and what's wrong with me and so on... Instead I started paying more attention to the way I think, evaluate, and the practices that I perform, trying to continually transform them rather than finding "which ones are suitable to me". Some of this is already in Nietzsche, although less explicitly.

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>> No.6619311

>>6619301
>Foucault's works on mental illness and psychiatry
Specifically?

>> No.6619396

>>6619311
Well, there's a lot of interesting texts he wrote on that subject, but his two most known works are probably the best start on this topic as well. Discipline and Punish talks about the invention of the "modern soul" as an object of power; History of Sexuality, Vol. 1 is about the notion of "truth about oneself" and the procedures of confession that have become a voluntary part of our everyday lives (the book's specific emphasis is on sexuality but isn't limited to it).
However, if you want something more specific to mental illness and psychiatry then there are two lecture series which are mostly easier to read that his main works, Psychiatric Power and Abnormal.
There's also his early work A History of Insanity which is a bit more "dry" even if it's packed with concrete details.

All of these are on libgen as well.