All Outputs (3)

Fatigue as an unconscious refusal of the demands of late capitalism (2021)
Journal Article
Diserholt, A. (2021). Fatigue as an unconscious refusal of the demands of late capitalism. Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society, 26, 516-534. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41282-021-00240-6

This paper explores fatigue in today’s society by drawing on popular culture and interviews conducted as part of a doctoral research study of nine people suffering from chronic fatigue. With a focus on the ideology of late capitalism, it examines how... Read More about Fatigue as an unconscious refusal of the demands of late capitalism.

Fatigue and the mind-body relation: a Lacanian exploration (2021)
Thesis
Diserholt, A. Fatigue and the mind-body relation: a Lacanian exploration. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2701703

This thesis explores the symptomatology of fatigue based on interviews conducted with seven people who are diagnosed with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis. The thesis starts by examining how a biomedical view of fatigue — the domina... Read More about Fatigue and the mind-body relation: a Lacanian exploration.

Hands (2018)
Journal Article
Disherholt, A. (2018). Hands. Ology: Reviews in Applied Sciences, 1(1), 6-7. https://doi.org/10.14297/ras.v1i1.1

An omnipresent and commonsensical idea today is that we are constantly preoccupied with a gadget in our hands-be that a phone, tablet or laptop-at the cost of social interactions ; thereby alienating us from both other people and ourselves. There is... Read More about Hands.