Ana Reberc: Depressed Twenties

Ana Reberc is a critical psychologist and sociologist of culture. She has been working as a reporter and researcher at Radio Študent and radio editor of the Psychoteka segment since 2017. In 2021, she completed her Master’s degree in Sociology of Culture with the title Ideološke predpostavke psihologije. (Ideological Assumptions of Psychology). Her main research interests are critical psychology and Marxist feminism.

The lecture focuses on the alienation of the human being, which is progressively becoming more and more fatal in capitalist society, which is reflected in human consciousness as well. Adorno wrote in 1950 that the mechanism of the subject’s adaptation to the aggravated relations is the mechanism of its hardening. The more we conform to capitalist realism, the more we become a thing, the less we live and are at the mercy of the nothingness of depression. With the help of Mark Fisher, in this lecture we will try to imagine depression as a socially situated response to reality and in this re-conceptualisation we will look for ways of our emancipation.