Late modern subjectivity and its discontents: anxiety, depression and Alzheimer’s disease

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Notes

1. The term ‘Salutogenesis’ denotes the approach to understanding the factors that enable what Antonovsky calls health-ease (one end of a health-ease vs dis-ease continuum) rather than the factors themselves which are in his theory called salutary (the factors that enable us to be healthy).

2. Without going into too much detail, the concept of Metanoia refers to a stable, lasting transformation of character and attitude towards others and the world, or in the authors’ own words: ‘“conversion” – that is being “turned” – “turned around” in a completely different direction “turned towards” sources of illumination, radiant ideals that lead us in a higher moral and spiritual direction’ (p.91). This idea is briefly drawn out through the works of William James, C.G. Jung and Charles Taylor at the end of the book.