A depressão e o suicídio como reflexos das relações capitalistas

Abstract

This monograph aims to investigate depression and suicide as reflections of the capitalist mode of production. In order to understand this relationship, we start from the point that it is necessary to understand the establishment and capitalist logic, the basis of our current mode of production, its gears such as the workforce, surplus value, its crises and consequences and responses to the its resumption. We analyze the meaning of work in the capitalist mode of production and how these work relations unfold and change and to what extent work has been degraded in the current mode of production, triggering the physical and mental exhaustion of the worker in order to generate suffering and mental disorders . Finally, we approach the role of society from different perspectives in this relationship, promoting through a bibliographical research in Marx and Durkheim, their different perspectives and studies, as well as a comparison that allows us to reflect on how far these different perspectives complement each other and in which points differ on the promotion and support of the system towards depression and suicide among workers. We then conclude that the MPC and the society over which it reigns end up corroborating the production of suicides through the withdrawal of rights and precarious working conditions, the concentration of capital and the necessary conditions for the production and reproduction of the system itself.