Depressive love: the science of social diseases

Love and depression are two essential elements, inseparable in the cultural narrative of emotions or emotional life within contemporary societies. Both have become so intertwined that it is no longer possible to talk about love without talking about depression; this led us to formulate the concept of "love-depression." In fact, the most common source of depression is emotional relationships, especially when neither party admits that the other needs care, love, and attention. This book addresses how conflicting emotional experiences like love and depression can become intertwined, and empirically documents the phenomenon of love-depression and its effects through studies of art, music, literature, even photography, and everyday life experiences. All of this is supported by many interviews and personal messages. Alongside all this, the book offers insightful reflections on a range of social, analytical, and philosophical theories about love, depression, and emotion, including works by George Zimmel, Arlie Hochschild, Anthony Giddens, Ulrich Beck, Eva Illouz, Zygmunt Bauman, Levinas, Sartre, Freud, Lacan, Kristeva, and others. The author also studied how love-depression is expressed in modern society, questioning whether this is a new phenomenon limited to Western societies or if it transcends them, and what characterizes love-depression and its associated traits in contemporary societies. It is a rich and comprehensive theoretical study of love-depression. This book will appeal to scholars and students of social theory, sociology, philosophy of emotion, and personal relationships.