Aberrations of mourning [electronic resource] / Laurence A. Rickels.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rickels, Laurence A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

German literature--History and criticism.

German literature.

Authorship--Psychological aspects.

Authorship.

Psychoanalysis and literature--Germany.

Psychoanalysis and literature.

Death in literature.

Authors, German--Psychology.

Authors, German.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (425 p.)

Edition:

[New ed.].

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

""Aberrations of Mourning,"" originally published in 1988, is the long unavailable first book in Laurence A. Rickels's ""unmourning"" trilogy, followed by ""The Case of California"" and ""Nazi Psychoanalysis."". Rickels studies mourning and melancholia within and around psychoanalysis, analyzing the writings of such thinkers as Freud, Nietzsche, Lessing, Heinse, Artaud, Keller, Stifter, Kafka, and Kraus. Rickels maintains that we must shift the way we read literature, philosophy, and psychoanalysis to go beyond traditional Oedipal structures. ""Aberrations of Mourning"" argues that the idea of

Contents:

COVER; CONTENTS; PREFACE: Invitation to a Reprinting; Aberrations of Mourning; INTRODUCTION; 1. AVUNCULAR STRUCTURES; 2. THE FATE OF A DAUGHTER; 3. THE FATHER'S IMPRISONMENT; 4. NECROFILIATION; 5. REGULATIONS FOR THE LIVING DEAD; 6. BURN NAME BURN; 7. WARM BROTHERS; 8. ARISTOCRITICISM; 9. THE UNBORN; NOTES; INDEX

Notes:

"Originally published as Aberrations of Mourning: Writing on German Crypts (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1988)"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4529-4716-3

0-8166-7690-9

OCLC:

742369725