Aberrations of Mourning
Author | : Laurence A. Rickels |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 409 |
Release | : 2011 |
ISBN-10 | : 1452947163 |
ISBN-13 | : 9781452947167 |
Rating | : 4/5 (167 Downloads) |
Download or read book Aberrations of Mourning written by Laurence A. Rickels and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Aberrations 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 o.