Sartre, Minkowski and Depression
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https://doi.org/10.65828/1bae8m66Keywords:
Depression, Sartre, Minkowski, existential, time, phenomenology, personal impetusAbstract
This paper explores the relationship between the ideas of Minkowski, a psychiatrist working at the beginning of the 19th century, Sartre, a key existential philosopher, and depression. Minkowski's exploration of the time dimension and Sartre's writings on choice, responsibility and self-construction are considered in relation to depression and psychotherapy.
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