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The Ends of Mourning: Psychoanalysis, Literature, Film
Contributor(s): Ricciardi, Alessia (Author)

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 ISBN: 0804747768     ISBN-13: 9780804747769
Publisher: Stanford University Press
OUR PRICE: $114.00  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: August 2003
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Annotation: " Alessia Ricciardi's The Ends of Mourning is a cogently argued and beautifully written work that deals with the fascinating and timely question of mourning. Ricciardi's book advances the existing body of work on trauma by considering the place of mourning in the transition from modernity to postmodernity. This place is, we learn, a missing place, for there is an important sense in which mourning is absent from the collective theoretical consciousness of our time; with a few exceptions, theory of the postmodern era has tended to promote a sense of the post-historical, as though we could somehow be simply free and clear of the past without ever having to mourn it. " -- Peter Connor, Barnard College
" Alessia Ricciardi' s truly outstanding book makes a significant contribution to critical theory in general and to psychoanalytically informed cultural criticism in particular. In many respects, it will prove to be a landmark study. . . . The End of Mourning is an extensive, brilliant, and brilliantly executed exposition of a complex and challenging theoretical and historical argument: that twentieth-century culture and thought has been impoverished-- in spite of a fascination and indeed obsession with all things historical-- by refusal to consider the implications of Freud' s emphasis on mourning as a proper way of relating to the past." -- Ulrich Baer, New York University

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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory
- Fiction
- Social Science
Dewey: 809.933
LCCN: 2003002089
Series: Cultural Memory in the Present
Physical Information: 0.85" H x 6" W x 9.36" L (1.09 lbs) 280 pages
Features: Bibliography, Index, Price on Product
Review Citations: Choice 03/01/2004 pg. 1280
 
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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.
 
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