{"product_id":"aberrations-of-mourning-paperback-softback-9780816675951","title":"Aberrations of Mourning (Paperback \/ softback) 9780816675951","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eAberrations of Mourning\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eLaurence A. Rickels (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780816675951\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 20 June 2011\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e304 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 3.8 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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 New Wave sensibility in literary criticism. In the era following Vietnam, schizonomadic thought, and the technological incursions of the media, \u003ci\u003eAberrations of Mourning\u003c\/i\u003e offers an urgently timed meditation on our cryptological era.\" -Avital Ronnell\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eAberrations of Mourning \u003c\/i\u003econtributes to the vanguards of critical thinking by establishing connections not only between generations and cultures, but between this world and that absolutely other world: it continues the search for and recovery of those missing in history’s natural disaster-the disaster of nature.\" -Akira Mizuta Lippit\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"For Rickels, the link between technology and mourning isn’t merely Freudian and speculative, but also solidly historically grounded…And the literature that emerges in the age of communications technologies-modernist literature-is this cult’s expression, its record, its holy script.\" -\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eAberrations of Mourning\u003c\/i\u003e, originally published in 1988, is the long unavailable first book in Laurence A. Rickels’s “unmourning” trilogy, followed by \u003ci\u003eThe Case of California\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNazi Psychoanalysis\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003eRickels 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.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAberrations of Mourning\u003c\/i\u003e argues that the idea of the crypt has had a surprisingly potent influence on psychoanalysis, and Rickels shows how society’s disturbed relationship with death and dying, our inability to let go of loved ones, has resulted in technology to form more and more crypts for the dead by preserving them-both physically and psychologically-in new ways.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePreface: Invitation to a Reprinting\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAberrations of Mourning\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. Avuncular Structures (Sigmund Freud\/Friedrich Nietzsche)\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Fate of a Daughter (Gotthold Ephraim Lessing)\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Father's Imprisonment (Wilelm Heinse)\u003cbr\u003e 4. Necrofiliation (Antonin Artaud)\u003cbr\u003e 5. Regulations for the Living Dead (Gottfried Keller)\u003cbr\u003e 6. Burn Name Burn (Adalbert Stifter)\u003cbr\u003e 7. Warm Brothers (Franz Kafka)\u003cbr\u003e 8. Aristocriticism (Karl Kraus)\u003cbr\u003e 9. The Unborn\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Univ Of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52681741730072,"sku":"9780816675951","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/aberrations-of-mourning-paperback-softback-9780816675951","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}