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Aberrations of Mourning

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Description for Aberrations of Mourning Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: JHBZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 38. .
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 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 ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816675951
SKU
V9780816675951
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About Laurence Rickels
Laurence 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 ... Read more

Reviews for Aberrations of Mourning
"This book shatters the iron collar of German Studies in America. Brilliant and articulate, Professor Rickels exercises a rigorous erudition over works ranging from Lessing to Artaud. It is as if these works had fallen under a spell, responding willingly to the relentless demands of a master reader. Laurence Rickels’s work marks a moment in what I would call the ... Read more

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