| Aberrations of Mourning Contributor(s): Rickels, Laurence a. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0816675953 ISBN-13: 9780816675951 Publisher: University of Minnesota Press OUR PRICE: $24.75 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | European - German - Psychology | Movements - Psychoanalysis - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social |
| Dewey: 830.935 |
| LCCN: 2011013910 |
| Physical Information: 0.95" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (1.18 lbs) 304 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 the crypt has had a surprisingly potent influence on psychoanalysis, and Rickels shows how society's disturbed relationship with death and dying, our inability to let go of loved ones, has resulted in technology to form more and more crypts for the dead by preserving them-both physically and psychologically-in new ways. |