By Lennard J. Davis
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Hacking notes that “mental illnesses,” for example, fugue states, hysteria, anorexia, or attention deficit disorder, arise in society at given historical moments and then may as well disappear within twenty or thirty years. He notes that such illnesses are “real” but also notes their provisional status. And he highlights the feedback loops between diagnoses and diseases. The point is that we must consider that diseases, particularly ones as complexly envisioned as those we call mental illnesses, are distinctly tied to the historical moment, the set of expected behaviors and norms in society, and the paradigms of the observers and the observed.
As depression is defined now, a depressive is a person whose dejection is such that he or she may well be aware of it, like the obsessive who is able to comment on and be aware of his obsession. Yet despite awareness or insight, neither the melancholic nor the suΩerers of vapors, spleen, hypochondria, and hysteria can eΩect a change by will. While obsession is seen as a disease of rationality and of will, melancholy is seen as a disposition or temperament. Both, again, are characteristic of intelligent people, scholars, writers, and in eΩect geniuses.
A physiological one? A philosophical one? One of the points of this study is to trace the problematic of obsession as it moves through these diΩerent spheres of knowledge. It will be important to note the changes in the perception of obsession, as well as the perceivers of obsession, as both extend into diΩerent ways of knowing. Our current line of thinking is that all psychiatric states are a result of neurochemistry and brain activity. ”42 So some clinicians and researchers who have miraculously persisted in reading my introduction up to this point will all the while have been shaking their heads at the ignorant insouciance of my project.