Interview research about ‘Mark Fisher and ‘Capitalist Realism’’

Fisher suffered from severe depression during his lifetime, and he was constantly fighting the thought of death in his life. He was thinking about the relationship between mental health and capitalism, living with melancholy, and accompanied by melancholy, writing about the inevitable sex appeal in order to survive in the capitalist era.

In an article titled "Why Mental Health Is a Political Issue", he mentioned that "the increase in depression is a negative aspect of modern entrepreneurialism." "What happens when a person who is forced to follow the spirit of self-reliance and self-reliance hits a wall on the way forward-no one will help him, only criticism. As in Oliver James's "Egoistic "The Capitalist" writes that in a world under the illusion called entrepreneurship, people are taught that winners have value. They are taught that as long as they work hard, they can become winners—regardless of identity, ethnicity, responsibility, and society. What is the background? If it fails, all that is waiting is loneliness and criticism. Now we can see such a structure everywhere, even the pressure has been privatized. We must fight this pressure privatization, and continue to ask people to privatize Health is regarded as a political issue."

Modern research on depression mostly advocates that depression is not a "emotional disease" but a "brain disease"-that is, a "qualitative" return to the theory of matter in the brain. The clinical and research frontline of modern depression has almost been dominated by the "monoamine hypothesis"-depression is a disease caused by the temporary imbalance of monoamines such as serotonin, norepinephrine, and dopamine. If depression is diagnosed by the psychology department or the psychiatric department, you will get an antidepressant such as Lippner, because "Since the disease is caused by neurotransmitters, it can be solved by controlling the amount of neurotransmitters through drugs." .

In this book, Fisher spends a considerable amount of space talking about mental health, such as this article.

It can be said that the dominant ontology now denies all the possibility of reading social causes from mental illness. This trend of chemical and biologicalization of mental illness is bound to be closely related to the depoliticization of mental illness. Because treating mental illness as a personal chemical and biological problem can bring huge benefits to capitalism. First, this strengthens the tendency to isolate individuals' capital (you get sick because of chemicals in your brain). Second, this allows many giant multinational pharmaceutical companies to sell pharmaceuticals, providing a very profitable market (our antidepressant SSRI can treat you). The causes of all mental illnesses are inseparable from neurology. There is no controversy, but this does not explain the reasons for their occurrence. For example, if the claim that depression is caused by insufficient serum concentration is correct, it must be explained why certain individuals have a decrease in serotonin concentration. What we need at this time is a social and political explanation. If the leftists want to try to raise an argument against realism in capitalism, re-politicizing mental illness will be an urgent issue.

The neurotransmitter is out of balance, but no one thinks about "why the neurotransmitter is out of balance." It is hard to say that there is a certain opportunity created by capital requirements-obvious overwork created by capital requirements, separation or encounters with close acquaintances, but the anxiety, anxiety, powerlessness and despair that accompany the suffering of life. It must be a major cause of depression.

However—even though depression is obviously caused by friction between individuals and society—psychiatrists will not explore the causal relationship or correlation between depression and social and social psychological factors, let alone dealing with patients The fundamental problem at the moment, or support its disposal. Because their job is to "treat diseases," for them, "discussing social issues is not part of their work." Their job is to repair the broken screws and send them back to the factory. They will not know, and there is no need to know what happened to the factory where the screw failed. If the screw is faulty, they fix it and send the repaired screw back to the factory. The screw failed again, they repaired it again, and sent the screw back to the factory again. Screw failure, they repaired it, screw failure, and repeated.

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