Depression og/eller apokalypse: Lars von Triers "Melancholia"

TY - JOUR

T1 - Depression og/eller apokalypse

T2 - Lars von Triers "Melancholia"

AU - Frantzen, Mikkel Krause

AU - Bjering, Jens Christian Borrebye

PY - 2015

Y1 - 2015

N2 - The article sets out by investigating how depression is represented in Lars von Trier´s disaster movie Melancholia with the specific intent to detach mental illness from classic, somewhat romantic notions of metaphoric and epistemological connections between psychopathology and deeper “truths” about the world. Employing what one could call a symptomatological view on the depression of the main protagonist Justine, the article concludes that her depression should be seen as a temporal disorder in the sense that she lacks the ability to project and plan a future. From here, the article turns to Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick´s concept of a “reparative praxis” as a possible ethico-practical way out of the depressive situation, arguing that such a reparative praxis is exactly what ends up pulling Justine out of her depression and enabling her to act. In a concluding step, the article relates depression and the reparative praxis to more general questions about temporality, imagination, and disaster based on Jean-Pierre Dupuy´s concept of “loop time”.

AB - The article sets out by investigating how depression is represented in Lars von Trier´s disaster movie Melancholia with the specific intent to detach mental illness from classic, somewhat romantic notions of metaphoric and epistemological connections between psychopathology and deeper “truths” about the world. Employing what one could call a symptomatological view on the depression of the main protagonist Justine, the article concludes that her depression should be seen as a temporal disorder in the sense that she lacks the ability to project and plan a future. From here, the article turns to Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick´s concept of a “reparative praxis” as a possible ethico-practical way out of the depressive situation, arguing that such a reparative praxis is exactly what ends up pulling Justine out of her depression and enabling her to act. In a concluding step, the article relates depression and the reparative praxis to more general questions about temporality, imagination, and disaster based on Jean-Pierre Dupuy´s concept of “loop time”.

KW - Det Humanistiske Fakultet

KW - Depression

KW - Apokalypse

KW - Lars von Trier

KW - Martin Heidegger

KW - Melancholia

M3 - Tidsskriftartikel

SN - 0905-6998

SP - 165

JO - K & K

JF - K & K

IS - 120

ER -