Negative Essays: On Death, Love, and Depressive Realism - Paperback

by Julie Reshe (Author)

While belonging to the tradition of philosophical pessimism and negative philosophy, these essays approach love, rather than mortality, as what most deeply wounds being. Love knows the darkest truth that death only conceals. Across thirteen essays, Julie Reshe develops a negative philosophy of our involvement with others, moving through depressive realism, the death drive, feminist Satanism, trauma, suicide, motherhood, narcissism, entropy, autism, disability, and aging. Essays include Humor and Depressive Realism, Therapeutic Society, Toxic Positivity, Critical Psychology, Feminist Satanism, Trauma as Initiation, Depression as Compassion, Suicide That Is Not One's Own, and The Negative Body.