Contact
How to shop
Delivery
Shopping guide
Mourning After Freud
English
303 b
New
Delivery to Austria
Up to 30 days for returns
Customers also purchased
/
Paperback
18.69
€
Argues that Freud and a host of twentieth-century writers after him conceptualize mourning as a matter of "hypertranslation," an essentially linguistic endeavor. Mourning After Freud offers new insight into a much-discussed but not yet exhausted topic of twentieth-century discourse. Whereas contemporary trauma theorists have identified interiorization as the central feature of Freud's theory of loss, Birger Vanwesenbeeck argues that Freud above all conceptualizes mourning as a form of translation and, more precisely, of "hypertranslation"—a translation of an unavailable original. Foregrounding the role of language in Freud's thought, the book reveals, provocatively, that the true heirs of his model are to be found not in psychoanalysis or trauma theory but rather in contiguous fields such as deconstruction, African American writing, and second-generation US immigrant literature more broadly. Through a series of close readings of twentieth-century theorists, poets, and novelists—from W. E. B. Du Bois to Sylvia Plath, from Henry Roth to Jacques Derrida—Mourning After Freud reveals time and again that the question of mourning cannot be separated from that of language.
About the book
English
Give this book today
It's easy
1 Add to cart and choose Deliver as present at the checkout 2 We'll send you a voucher 3 The book will arrive at the recipient's addressYou might also be interested in
/
Paperback
20.99
€
Hi! I'm Libroamiko, your book advisor.
How can I help you?