The history of depression according to Alain Ehrenberg Gisela Vasconcellos Monteiro, Bárbara Cristina Barbosa, Valéria Nancy de Freitas, Breno Ayres Chaves Rodrigues, Laís Barreto Barbosa, Roseane Carlos Cordeiro, Rosa Maria Ferreiro Pinto

Abstract

Alain Ehrenberg's trilogy is presented. Through which the social history of depression is narrated in an articulated and consistent way in which the individual is not diagnosed due to their symptomatic or genetic limitations, but is considered a portrait of their historical and social context with the enormous demands generated by it. The notions of project, motivation or communication dominate normative culture. These are the key words of the time. Depression is a pathology of the times and a pathology of motivation. The depressed person has no energy, his movement is dulled, and his speech is slow..