 She then presents a political account of depression that depathologizes such negatively-connotated emotional experiences so that they can become more visible in public and thus create a potential foundation for community (Cvetkovich 2007: 460). In The Cultural Politics of Emotion, Sara Ahmed argues that emotion is generated when meaning is produced across social-political interaction; these feelings create the boundaries of affinity groups and impact self-understanding. In this analysis, emotions help constitute what a person understands as their objective condition, and thus