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Uncomfortably Numb: Elizabeth Wurtzel’s Cool Lifestyles
ABSTRACT On the confessional pages of her memoirs Prozac Nation and More, Now, Again and in the meditations on popular culture that characterise her journalism and non-fiction, Elizabeth Wurtzel’s writing demonstrates a consistent emphasis on images of iconic rebellion. Recognising the ways these patterns mesh with her wider focus on addiction and depression, this article situates Wurtzel’s vision of outsiderdom in relation to cool’s often explicitly masculine discourses and moves from there to demonstrate the extent to which the focus on cool lifestyles informs her representations of addiction and depression. In terms that connect the cultural with the psychological, ‘Uncomfortably numb’ illuminates not just Wurtzel’s writing and the patterns that shape the interpretation of cool, but the nature of the way a depressive self is narrated, negotiated and understood.