The banner Permanent Depression critically engages with the pervasive demand for therapy in contemporary society. It is a response, perhaps, to a general feeling of malaise, of collective socio-historical anxiety, an aesthetic manifestation of a pathology of the zeitgeist. Depression is the new permanent vacation - the collective, contemporary neurosis (a Freudian term considered outdated),
lost through countless psychotherapy meetings and infinite doomscrolling sessions.
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