The book charts the emergence and development of the problem of mourning in the writings of Freud, Proust, and Freud's successor Lacan. Freud's idea of "sorrow work" and Proust's concept of involuntary memory defined the terms of the classic modernist account of mourning in the fields of psychoanalysis and literature. Yet their insistence on the egotistical aspects of loss to the exclusion of all ethical and political considerations threatens the dissolution of the question of mourning.
The book charts the emergence and development of the problem of mourning in the writings of Freud, Proust, and Freud's successor Lacan. Freud's idea of "sorrow work" and Proust's concept of involuntary memory defined the terms of the classic modernist account of mourning in the fields of psychoanalysis and literature. Yet their insistence on the egotistical aspects of loss to the exclusion of all ethical and political considerations threatens the dissolution of the question of mourning.
The Ends of Mourning: Psychoanalysis, Literature, Film
280The Ends of Mourning: Psychoanalysis, Literature, Film
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ISBN-13: | 9780804747776 |
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Publisher: | Stanford University Press |
Publication date: | 08/19/2003 |
Series: | Cultural Memory in the Present |
Edition description: | 1 |
Pages: | 280 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.60(d) |