The ends of mourning : psychoanalysis, literature, film / Alessia Ricciardi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ricciardi, Alessia.

Series:

Cultural memory in the present

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Death in literature.

Literature, Modern--History and criticism.

Literature, Modern.

Death in motion pictures.

Death--Psychological aspects.

Death.

Bereavement--Psychological aspects.

Bereavement.

Physical Description:

x, 266 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2003.

Summary:

The Ends of Mourning explores from an interdisciplinary perspective the crisis of contemporary culture with respect to the problem of mourning. In an age grown skeptical of history, and lacking a sense of memory's urgency, we relate to the past only as a spectacle, a product to be consumed in the cultural marketplace. 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.

Contents:

Part 1 Narratives of Mourning

1 The Twilight of Mourning 17

2 Cool Memories 69

Part 2 Frames of Mourning

3 Heretical Specters 123

4 Godard's Histoire(s) 167.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [207]-257) and index.

ISBN:

0804747768

0804747776

OCLC:

51586813