Outline of the best selling book about depression: "darkness visible, a memoir of madness". Also discussed are Carl Jung and his Liber Novus, Nietzsche's eternal recurance and Zarathustra, William James' the varieties of religious experience and his 'sick souls'. St John of the Cross and the obscure night of the soul. The aridity of experience. What does one do when we are disconnected from anything and everything... When we have no joy, an absence of value or meaning... "The bed of obscure angst" laid for our 'selfs'... Plasticity of mind the cause and solution to our malaise. Not a modern malaise, nothing new about this Melancholia, this Trauma....