ABSTRACT
In this chapter I discuss the dialogue I have had with myself about depression in the past thirty years. I contrast this dialogue with Hannah Arendt’s view of thinking as a dialogue between I and I, in order to develop a more embodied and situated view of thinking. I also investigate how conversations with the self and with others relate in the context of depression, analyzing how (historical) power structures, and the (medical, political, existential) lens that we use to describe and treat it, can affect how we think about depression both collectively and individually. As a conclusion to the chapter, I discuss how an embodied view of thinking can change how we do philosophy in a multispecies world.
