The Ends of Mourning: Psychoanalysis, Literature, Film
“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...
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This 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.
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1Pt. 1Narratives of Mourning1The Twilight of Mourning172Cool Memories69Pt. 2Frames of Mourning3Heretical Specters1234Godard's Histoire(s)167Notes207Index259
