摘要：Considering the antidepressant in its relation to the production of subjectivity and its imbrication with contemporary social norms, this article examines the instrumentalisation of science as an answer to psychological distress as well as the construction of its meaning and narration. From the scientific understanding of depression as an objective and natural entity to the commodification of the antidepressant molecule, the author is interested in unfolding the different interactions between the realms of individual semantic organization and the collective socioeconomic order. In order to investigate the underlying apparatuses in the production of meaning, the article emphasizes the necessity to go beyond the mere quest for cultural meanings in regard to ideas and concept formation. Studying the way in which psychomedical technologies act upon the relation one has with oneself and with illness necessitates an embrace of the complex socioeconomic mechanisms involved in the psychologisation of the social domain and its removal from the politic field.
