The Ends of Mourning: Psychoanalysis, Literature, Film by Alessia Ricciardi

The Ends of Mourning: Psychoanalysis, Literature, Film

Cultural Memory in the Present

Alessia Ricciardi

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This book suits intellectually curious readers who relish tracing how big abstract problems—like how we grieve—are reshaped across philosophy, art, and culture and who enjoy questioning whether modern life has flattened our emotional memory into mere spectacle.

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The Ends of Mourning explores from an interdisciplinary perspective the contemporary crisis of mourning. In an age skeptical of history and memory, we relate to the past only as a spectacle, a product to be consumed in the cultural marketplace. Th...

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