Negative Essays: On Death, Love, and Depressive Realism

A philosophy of love, trauma, depression, suicide, motherhood, Satan, entropy, and aging — written against therapeutic culture and the tyranny of positivity. While belonging to the tradition of philosophical pessimism and negative philosophy, these essays approach love, rather than mortality, as what most deeply wounds being. Love knows the darkest truth that death only conceals. The book consists of thirteen Negative Essays, including Feminist Satanism, Depression as Compassion, and Trauma as Initiation.