Lacan on Depression and Melancholia: Stijn Vanheule & Derek Hook interviewed by Ozgur Ogutcen

Stijn and Derek respond to Ozgur's questions on their book 'Lacan on Depression and Melancholia'. Themes include 1) the Lacanian critique of the notion of depression as descriptive rather than structural, 2) a response to Lacan's idea depression as a failing (and the related idea of 'the ethics of the well-spoken'), 3) the cultural dynamics behind the concept of depression as potentially creating suffering, 4) the imaginary dimension of depression (i.e. the idea of "being locked into the imaginary"), 5) differences between neurosis and psychosis (in relation to the 'limiting function of the symbolic').
Interview organized by Axis Publishing.