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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456853803321

Autore

Rickels Laurence A

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, 2011

ISBN

1-4529-4716-3

0-8166-7690-9

Edizione

[[New ed.].]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (425 p.)

Disciplina

830.9/353

Soggetti

German literature - History and criticism

Authorship - Psychological aspects

Psychoanalysis and literature - Germany

Death in literature

Authors, German - Psychology

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

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

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

""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