Depression as identity crisis began with the bourgeoisie.

Evidence

If the end of the nineteenth century created the “chronic identity crisis,” it did so only for the bourgeoisie. The proletariat had to wait until the second half of the twentieth century for the democratization of depression. — Alain Ehrenberg, The Weariness of the Self, 262

Categorization

• SEED: Article angle: the class history of mental suffering — why selfhood-and-depression was a luxury good before it was democratized.
• XREF: connects to: The modern self experiences suffering without naming a specific cause. — Alain Ehrenberg, The Weariness of the Self: Diagnosing…, 174; Depression is a despecialization that ruptures the social bond — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 20; Psychoanalysis itself was born from sublimated bourgeois political frustration — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism: A Marxist…, 210 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Freudian mental categories are historical products of bourgeois subject disintegration #expands (0.85) — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 74
• Bourgeois ideology fragments classes into possessive individual subjects. #expands (0.80) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 912
• Depression is a despecialization that ruptures the social bond #expands (0.75) — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 20
• Psychoanalysis itself was born from sublimated bourgeois political frustration #expands (0.75) — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 210