This essay is a reflection on the discourse of mental health in our current times; a conversation I’ve been having with myself, and others, that oftentimes feels like screaming into the nothing.
"Capitalism is able to utilize happenings as a means of production: a way to produce crisis narratives. Again, an event marking loss, negativity and absence, is countered with a spike in production, not just of commodity, but also a production and manufacturing of meaning, terminology, pathology and cure. This argument is beautifully illustrated in Todd McGowan’s Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets," writes Nahhas. ♥️📢 https://nournahhas.substack.com/p/crisis-fantasy-and-psychoanalysis/
"Capitalism is able to utilize happenings as a means of production: a way to produce crisis narratives. Again, an event marking loss, negativity and absence, is countered with a spike in production, not just of commodity, but also a production and manufacturing of meaning, terminology, pathology and cure. This argument is beautifully illustrated in Todd McGowan’s Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets," writes Nahhas. ♥️📢 https://nournahhas.substack.com/p/crisis-fantasy-and-psychoanalysis/