Mourning and Metabolization: Close Readings in the Psychoanalytic Literature of Loss

ISBN-13: 9781032210797 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 496 str.

Rael Meyerowitz

Opis

By bringing together perspectives from psychoanalysis and literary study, and considering the reciprocal relation between ideas about mourning and our internal worlds, this book provides a guide to thinking theoretically about loss and how we deal with it.

Spis treści

Introduction: mourning and the internal world in psychoanalysis and literature  1. Early explorations—mapping the territory of the mind, Sigmund Freud  2. Later models—identification, internal structure, and the ubiquity of loss, Sigmund Freud  3. Inventing introjection; Karl Abraham: phenomenologist of depression, Sandor Ferenczi  4. Positioning the object and rebuilding the internal world, Melanie Klein  5. Turning ghosts into ancestors—internalisation and emancipation, Hans Loewald  6. Rescuing introjection from the crypts of incorporation, Nicolas Abraham and Maria Torok  7. Fading and framing—the metaphorical mother lost and restored, André Green  Conclusion: meaning, mourning, and mortality in Freud and Auden