LEADER 03687nam 2200733Ia 450 001 9910962497703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9781438427409 010 $a1438427409 010 $a9781441621368 010 $a1441621369 024 7 $a10.1515/9781438427409 035 $a(CKB)1000000000788895 035 $a(OCoLC)440817078 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10588852 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000154860 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12003409 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000154860 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10438116 035 $a(PQKB)10161223 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3408301 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3408301 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10588852 035 $a(DE-B1597)682688 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781438427409 035 $a(Perlego)2672449 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000788895 100 $a20081104d2009 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aFinal acts $etraversing the fantasy in the modern memoir /$fTom Ratekin 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAlbany $cState University of New York Press$dc2009 215 $a1 online resource (179 p.) 225 0$aSUNY series in psychoanalysis and culture 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a9781438427294 311 08$a1438427298 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aFinite and infinite games: terminal illness and the genre of the literary memoir -- The critical process of symptom to Sinthome: Allon White's "Too close to the bone" -- Working through the four discourses: Gillian Rose and the products of Love's work -- Harold Brodkey's traversal of fiction: This wild darkness as La passe -- Modern frame for the postmodern image: reclaiming the gaze in Derek Jarman's Modern nature and Blue -- The genre of the unconscious. 330 $aWriters facing death offer a rare glimpse into human mortality?they have the unusual opportunity to craft the closing chapter of their life stories. Final Acts explores memoirs of terminal illness, and shows a paradoxical pattern where the diagnosis of terminal illness evokes not despair, but a new freedom and richness in life. The memoirs analyzed?by Allon White, Harold Brodkey, Gillian Rose, and Derek Jarman?provide insight into the experience of radical contingency that an awareness of mortality brings. Tom Ratekin engages the concept of "traversing the fantasy," elaborated by Jacques Lacan and Slavoj ?i?ek, to argue that the new richness in life each of these memoirists' experiences arises from the abandonment of a particular fantasy that guided his or her earlier work?a fantasy that both protected and inhibited the memoirist. Freed from convention, these writers, while close to death, can reinterpret the stories presented in their earlier work, and gain new perspectives on their worlds and existence. 606 $aLiterature, Modern$xPsychological aspects 606 $aAutobiographical memory in literature 606 $aTerminally ill$xPsychology 606 $aSemiotics and literature 606 $aAuthorship 615 0$aLiterature, Modern$xPsychological aspects. 615 0$aAutobiographical memory in literature. 615 0$aTerminally ill$xPsychology. 615 0$aSemiotics and literature. 615 0$aAuthorship. 676 $a809/.93353 700 $aRatekin$b Tom$01805779 712 02$aState University of New York. 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910962497703321 996 $aFinal acts$94354579 997 $aUNINA