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81 " El hombre no ha nacido para trabajar. Quien trabaja no es libre. Según Aristóteles, el hombre libre es alguien que no depende de las necesidades de la vida ni de sus coerciones. "
― Byung-Chul Han , The Burnout Society
82 " Es una ilusión pensar que cuanto más activo uno se vuelva, más libre es. "
83 " También la actual aceleración está ligada a esa falta de ser. La sociedad de trabajo y rendimiento no es ninguna sociedad libre. Produce nuevas obligaciones. La dialéctica del amo y el esclavo no conduce finalmente a aquella sociedad en la que todo aquel que sea apto para el ocio es un ser libre, sino más bien a una sociedad de trabajo, en la que el amo mismo se ha convertido en esclavo del trabajo. En esta sociedad de obligación, cada cual lleva consigo su campo de trabajos forzados. Y lo particular de este último consiste en que allí se es prisionero y celador, víctima y verdugo, a la vez. "
84 " Psychoanalysis presupposes the negativity of repression and negation. The unconscious and repression, Freud stresses, are “correlative” to the greatest extent. In contrast, the process of repression or negation plays no role in contemporary psychic maladies such as depression, burnout, and ADHD. Instead, they indicate an excess of positivity, that is, not negation so much as the inability to say no; "
85 " A la sociedad disciplinaria todavía la rige el no. Su negatividad genera locos y criminales. La sociedad de rendimiento, por el contrario, produce depresivos y fracasados. "
86 " Arendt even believes to have identified danger signals “that man may be . . . on the point of developing into that animal species from which, since Darwin, he imagines he has come.”6 She assumes that all human activities, if viewed from a sufficiently remote point in the universe, would no longer appear as deeds but as biological processes. Accordingly, for an observer in outer space, motorization would resemble a biological mutation: the human body surrounds itself with a metal housing in the manner of a snail—like bacteria reacting to antibiotics by mutating into resistant strains. "
87 " A depressão é a expressão patológica do fracasso do homem pós-moderno em ser ele mesmo. "
88 " Immigrants and refugees are more likely to be perceived as burdens than as threats. "
89 " Twenty-first-century society is no longer a disciplinary society, but rather an achievement society [Leistungsgesellschaft]. Also, its inhabitants are no longer “obedience-subjects” but “achievement-subjects.” They are entrepreneurs of themselves. The walls of disciplinary institutions, which separate the normal from the abnormal, have come to seem archaic. "
90 " The immunological paradigm proves incompatible with the process of globalization. "
91 " The violence of positivity does not deprive, it saturates; it does not exclude, it exhausts. That is why it proves inaccessible to unmediated perception. "
92 " El cansancio de la sociedad de rendimiento es un cansancio a solas (Alleinmüdigkeit), que aísla y divide. Corresponde a lo que Handke, en el Ensayo sobre el cansancio,46 denomina el «cansancio que separa»: "
93 " The depressed individual is unable to measure up; he is tired of having to become himself. "
94 " For Ehrenberg, depression is the pathological expression of the late-modern human being’s failure to become himself. Yet depression also follows from impoverished attachment [Bindungsarmut], which is a characteristic of the increasing fragmentation and atomization of life in society. Ehrenberg lends no attention to this aspect of depression. "
95 " In reality, it is not the excess of responsibility and initiative that makes one sick, but the imperative to achieve: the new commandment of late-modern labor society. "
96 " En esta sociedad de obligación, cada cual lleva consigo su campo de trabajos forzados. "
97 " Depression is the sickness of a society that suffers from excessive positivity. It reflects a humanity waging war on itself. "
98 " the disappearance of domination does not entail freedom. Instead, it makes freedom and constraint coincide. Thus, the achievement-subject gives itself over to compulsive freedom—that is, to the free constraint of maximizing achievement. "
99 " private tiredness, not ours, but mine over here and yours over there "
100 " La positivización del mundo permite la formación de nuevas formas de violencia. "