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Depression

​D epression a public feeling

Ann Cvetkovich Duke University Press Durham & London 2012

© 2012 Duke University Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America on acid-­free paper ♾ Designed by C. H. Westmoreland Typeset in Charis with Magma Compact display by Tseng Information Systems, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging-­in-­Publication Data appear on the last printed page of this book. Duke University Press gratefully acknowledges the support of the Office of the President at The University of Texas at Austin, which provided funds toward the publication of this book.

For Gretchen “Twenty years isn’t much, you know I want two hundred more . . .”

In writing this book I’ve continually felt pressed against the limits of my stupidity, even as I’ve felt the promising closeness of transmissible gifts. —Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Touching Feeling

Acknow ledgments ix Introduction 1

Part I The Depression Journals (A Memoir) Going Down 29 Swimming 43 The Return 62 Reflections: Memoir as Public Feelings Research Method 74

Part II A Public Feelings Project (A Speculative Essay) 1. Writing Depression: Acedia, History, and Medical Models 85

2. From Dispossession to Radical Self-­Po

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