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Author_Alessia Ricciardi
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Product details
- ISBN 9780804747769
- Weight: 494g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 19 Aug 2003
- Publisher: Stanford University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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The Ends of Mourning explores from an interdisciplinary perspective the contemporary crisis of mourning. In an age skeptical of history and memory, we relate to the past only as a spectacle, a product to be consumed in the cultural marketplace.
The book charts the emergence and development of the problem of mourning in the writings of Freud, Proust, and Freud's successor Lacan. Freud's idea of "sorrow work" and Proust's concept of involuntary memory defined the terms of the classic modernist account of mourning in the fields of psychoanalysis and literature. Yet their insistence on the egotistical aspects of loss to the exclusion of all ethical and political considerations threatens the dissolution of the question of mourning.
Alessia Ricciardi is Assistant Professor in the Department of French and Italian at Northwestern University.
