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Andrés Botero Bernal, Javier Orlando Aguirre Román, Juan David Almeyda Sarmiento
Esta investigación pretende demostrar cómo surge la depresión dentro de la sociedad del logro (Leistungsgesellschaft o Achievment society) como resultado de una patología social, que se expresa en lo temporal y afecta directamente la forma en que los individuos se narran a sí mismos. Así, este escrito se divide en tres momentos: el primero expone los elementos de la sociedad del logro contemporánea; el segundo describe la necesidad del sistema neoliberal de controlar el tiempo, como elemento necesario para poder revolucionarse a sí mismo y mejorar su reproducción sistémica; y, finalmente, en la tercera parte se presenta la depresión como un efecto de la patología temporal que genera psicopolíticamente el capitalismo para mejorar su eficiencia reproductiva, patología que termina por anular la capacidad narrativa del sujeto. Todo esto con el fin de describir los síntomas que se desprenden del marco de la actual sociedad neoliberal y la forma en que esta afecta a los individuos atrapados en ella.
This paper aims to demonstrate how depression arises within the achievement society (Leistungsgesellschaft) as a result of a temporal pathology that directly affects the way individuals narrate themselves. Thus, the writing is divided into three moments: the first, which exposes the elements of contemporary achievement society; the second, which describes the need for the neoliberal system to control time as a necessary element to be able to revolutionize itself and improve its systemic reproduction and; finally, in the third part, depression is presented as an effect of the temporary pathology that capitalism generates psychopolitically to improve its reproductive efficiency, a pathology that ends up nullifying the narrative capacity of the subject. All this in order to describe the symptoms that emerge from the framework of the current neoliberal society and the way in which it affects the individuals trapped in it.
In this way, it’s important to highlight that the way in which a constant form of exploitation of the subject is articulated within the achievement society by placing it in a position of constant depression, which is privatized and individualized to prevent the exploited from becoming aware that the problem of this condition of suffering lies in a rampant attack by the system on time, which plays a structural role within existence. The main function of this temporary attack is to avoid the subject the possibility of narrating himself, that is, of conquering his own story through a relationship with the world that is based on the capacity of an experience in the world, more than a mere survival in this one.
Thus, the research highlights the relationship of dead time, a product of neoliberal (self) exploitation, with the depressive pathologies that the precarious, dominated and controlled individual goes through in the framework of a life that is subjectivized by dead work, as it is Marx conceived, which does nothing other than legitimize suffering, which is expressed in a palliative form, so that the depression that the subject lives can be exploited and commodified.
What the latter wants is to put homelessness as the engine of the neoliberal economy, which ends up leading to rampant consumerism that tends to function as a psychic placebo that keeps the subject alienated within the parameters of the system that destroys him.
Thus, the article assumes that there is within the human being a foundational narrative capacity that is repressed by the system through the attack on the temporal structure of existence. The acceleration of the world, thanks to the neoliberal need to reinvent itself, causes psychic breakdowns to be generated within the ways of being of the individual that are potentially exploitable by the system, while this is considered a form of subjectivity that is reproduced thanks to the legitimation that the subjects themselves make of their practices in daily life. Therefore, the main hypothesis of the article points out that only with a philosophical-political critique of time is it possible to consider a first step in the treatment of what depression is, to the extent that it implies the return of the repressed narrativity of the individual.
However, it seeks to generate a theoretical investigation that indicates the way in which said system is sustained on depression as a marketable element to be able to revolutionize itself, for which the considerations regarding this problem are not only fundamental, but also imply an evident criticism of the ways in which the neoliberal system is, in essence, a necropolitical system that is based on a nihilism that turns pathological. Without forgetting that the panorama of this situation is not encouraging, because capitalist exploitation necessarily leads to the improvement of said control and domination devices.
