Understanding the Experience of Depressivity from the Tradition of Phenomenological Psychopathology

Abstract

Studies on depression and melancholy occupied an important place in the tradition of phenomenological psychopathology. The development of these studies stalled in describing the experience of depressivity as the constitutive basis for understanding depression itself. Arthur Tatossian was the theorist who, while studying the experienced depression, rescued the experience of depressivity and its importance lies in the output of a thought directed to the material contents of the experienced depression for the experience that encompasses such a phenomenon. In this this article, we aim to understand the experience of depressivity, based on Tatossian’s work, and the contributions of phenomenological psychopathology’s tradition to develop this experience.