چكيده لاتين :
The lecture describes depression in phenomenological terms, i.e. on
the basis of the distinction of ‘lived’ and ‘corporeal’ body. While the
body is normally embedded into the world and extended into space,
depression interrupts this lived contact to the world and to others. Local
or general oppression condenses the fluid, mobile lived-body to the solid,
heavy corporeal body which puts up resistance to all remaining expansive
impulses. The depressed person is thus restricted to a ‘corporealized body’
which does not give access to the world any more, but stands in the way as an
obstacle. The patient’s capacity to participate in the world by his senses and
feelings is thwarted by alienation and even depersonalisation. The lecture
interprets the typical clinical symptoms of depression on the background
of this concept and arrives at some therapeutical conclusions.
