Kindle Notes & Highlights
abortion of the future that occurs in depression entails that all that remains is a kind of eternal present full of pain and horror, and the feeling that this is all there is, always has been and always will be.
Officially, then, I’m in a depression. The formula seems a happy one to me. It’s not that I feel tremendously low; it’s rather that the world around me appears high.
According to Kierkegaard, in some cases there can even be something diabolical or demonic to the state of despair. The self in demonic despair is a self who clings to his or her despair. It is a self who is not, on any account, willing to let go of the despair; a self who would rather be right than be redeemed; a self who does not want to seek help even if that means living through “all the agonies of hell.”
“Aren’t we actually sick of sex, of difference, of emancipation, of culture?”
