La mise à l’aventure de la psyché

How can we account for the psychopolitical phenomenon of depression in the light of the planetary? In his Sphere trilogy, Peter Sloterdijk uses Dante’s infernology as a navigational device to map out the imaginal geography of what he defines as “depressive space.” This article prolongs this approach by articulating it to a series of anonymous therapeutic exchanges that have taken place by chat in an online support group. The literary aspect of these exchanges is brought to the fore in an attempt to creatively and performatively accompany these precarious expressions of suffering, following Starhawk’s speculative and ethical guidance: “know the dark, and dream it into a new image.”

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