> Bartleby is clearly depressed, as many of us are in these times. He’s broken, not committed to repair. And he’s encouraged to stay that way, in part, because

> Bartleby is clearly depressed, as many of us are in these times. He’s broken, not committed to repair. And he’s encouraged to stay that way, in part, because no one really knows what the hell to do with him. As Szasz points out, this is the basic attitude of modern psychiatry. "What the hell do we do with these depressed people? They should repair themselves and get lively in the world (that we have miserably abused)."