@article{García-Martínez_2021, title={Defining Depression: Endogenous Materialities, Exogenous Immaterialities}, url={https://revistadebats.net/article/view/4200}, DOI={10.28939/iam.debats-en.2021-2}, abstractNote={<p>Definitions are narratives in action, implying a need to track down the ontology of what is defined. In<br>this case, we explore the mutual tension and/or symbiosis (with consonant and dissonant spaces)<br>arising from the definition of depression. We approach the term ‘depression’ as a controversial<br>subject, mapping a comparison between lay and expert narratives on the malaise, and making<br>use of digital ethnography as the methodology. A self-administered online open questionnaire was<br>completed with the definitions of 29 lay respondents. In addition, expert narratives were gathered<br>with the definitions of 9 health institutions’ web sites, and public mediation forums. Definitions<br>echoed from both spaces, with splits between biological materiality and psychological-social<br>immateriality, with a reiteration of the division between exogeneity and endogeneity, respectively.<br>Here, the emotiveness of the subject can be seen as stemming from the sum of reductionisms<br>and cumulative factors as to what depression is. Finally, we consider other possible ontologies<br>of depression that either: (1) take socio-material assemblies into account or (2) follow the<br>pragmatical turn, defining depression in action. This research opens new approaches towards<br>identifying external materialities, shifting the blame from the diagnosis of the individual towards<br>the mechanisms that spawn harmful relationships.</p>}, journal={Debats. Revista de cultura, poder i societat}, author={García-Martínez, Javier}, year={2021}, month={Dec.}, pages={29–42} }