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Aberrations of Mourning (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780816675951)
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xAberrations 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.
Author: Laurence a. Rickels
ISBN-10: 0816675953
ISBN-13: 9780816675951
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Language: English
Published: 06/20/2011
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.18lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.95d
Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 10/01/2011 pg. 202
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.
Author: Laurence a. Rickels
ISBN-10: 0816675953
ISBN-13: 9780816675951
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Language: English
Published: 06/20/2011
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.18lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.95d
Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 10/01/2011 pg. 202
By Laurence a. Rickels
xLaurence A. Rickels moved to the West Coast in 1981 after completing graduate training in German philology at Princeton University. While in California he earned a psychotherapy license. He has published numerous studies of the phenomenon he calls "unmourning," a term that inspired his trilogy Aberrations of Mourning, The Case of California, and Nazi Psychoanalysis. He has also written the coursebooks The Vampire Lectures and The Devil Notebooks. All of these books have been published by the University of Minnesota Press.
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