Depression: Representations in French Prose at the Turn of the Millennium

在我的书中，我将分析千年之交的法国散文中抑郁症的表现，超越天才或病理学的美学范式。这些抑郁的表征作为摩擦或秩序失败的症状。因此，我的研究必须考察秩序系统因功能障碍而问题化的方式。法国小说被选中是因为与传统范式（精神分析的嵌入，对医学话语的深入讨论等）的并存。以及最近的发展（欧洲最广泛使用的精神药物，当代散文中抑郁的反英雄的显著存在，往往具有自我虚构的特征）。本课题将探讨文学研究领域内的抑郁现象，并从文化研究的角度探讨作为研究实验室的文学生产。在这样做时，叙事文本的表演性将被假定;因此，文本及其对抑郁症的表征变成了危机问题化和主体潜力的阶段。被分析的小说特别关注男性（反）英雄。在这种情况下，拆除特定性别的建设是一个重要的特点，因此，我的抑郁症的现象的研究将有助于最近的男性研究的基础上采取的文化方法的分析。在我的分析中，我将表明，高度局部发生抑郁症的整体社会影响是发展和重新解释为阻力。这些结论将与医学领域（神经科学，精神分析）的研究现状相联系，因此，由于文学表现而获得的关于抑郁症的知识将扩展到跨学科的谈判。连接三个学科的认识论范式是我的方法的一个特色。通过应用这种方法，我的目的是探索抑郁症的复杂性。此外，调查承诺是一个有价值的贡献，为非研究小组的主题的讨论，因为它是直接连接到社会政治相关性和医疗政策的最新辩论。

In my book I will analyze representations of depression in French prose at the turn of the millennium beyond paradigms of the aesthetic of genius or pathology. These representations of depression function as symptoms of frictions or of the failure of the order. My study, therefore, has to examine the manner in which the system of the order is problematized by dysfunction. French novels have been selected because of the concurrence of traditional paradigms (embedding of psychoanalysis, intensified discussion of medical discourses etc.) and more recent developments (most extensive use of psychotropic drugs in Europe, significant presence of depressed anti-heroes in contemporary prose which often features autofictional traits). The project will situate the phenomenon of depression within the field of literary studies and, furthermore, will discuss the production of literature as a laboratory for reviewing based on the perspective of cultural studies. In doing so, a performativity of narrative texts will be assumed; as a consequence, the texts and its representations of depression turn into a stage for the problematization of crisis as well as the potency of subjects. The analyzed novels focus on male (anti-)heroes in particular. In this context the dismantling of gender specific constructions is an essential characteristic and thus, my study of the phenomenon of depression will contribute to recent masculinity studies based on the cultural approaches taken in the analysis. In my analysis I will show that overall societal implications of the highly topical occurrence of depression are developed and reinterpreted as resistance. Such conclusions will be linked to the current state of research in the medical field (neurosciences, psychoanalysis) and, hence, the acquired knowledge about depression due to the literary representations will be extended to a transdisciplinary negotiation. Connecting the epistemological paradigms of the three disciplines is a special feature of my approach. By applying this method I aim at exploring the complexity of depression.Additionally, the investigation promises to be a valuable contribution to the discussion of the topic for non-research groups since it is to be linked directly to the latest debates of socio-political relevance and healthcare policies.