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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910781511203321
• Autore: Rickels Laurence A
• 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
• 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