The Burnout Society

Depression began its ascent when the disciplinary model for behaviors, the rules of authority and observance of taboos that gave social classes as well as both sexes a specific destiny, broke against norms that invited us to undertake personal initiative by enjoining us to be ourselves. . . . The depressed individual is unable to measure up; he is tired of having to become himself.

attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

The positivation of the world allows new forms of violence to emerge.

Because Otherness is disappearing, we live in a time that is poor in negativity.

Now, however, Otherness is being replaced with difference,

A violence that may have expressed itself only in our manner of seeing, which distorted the othe

Doomed to remain speechless, that sort of

achievement society is slowly developing into a doping society.

Paradoxically, hyperactivity represents an extremely passive form of doing, which bars the possibility of free actio

Mounting positivization of society also weakens feelings such as dread and mourning [Trauer], which are based on a kind of negativity; they are negative feelin