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Language of Ruin and Consumption - On Lamenting and Complaining (Hardcover)
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Language of Ruin and Consumption - On Lamenting and Complaining (Hardcover)
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Laments and complaints are among the most ancient poetical forms
and ubiquitous in everyday speech. Understanding plaintive
language, however, is often prevented by the resentment and fear it
evokes. Lamenting and complaining seems pointless, irreconcilable,
and destructive. Language of Ruin and Consumption examines Freud's
approaches to lamenting and complaining, the heart of
psychoanalytic therapy and theory, and takes them as guidelines for
reading key works of the modern canon. The re-negotiation of
older--ritual, dramatic, and juridical--forms in Rilke,
Wittgenstein, Scholem, Benjamin, and Kafka puts plaintive language
in the center of modern individuality and expounds a fundamental
dimension of language neglected in theory: reciprocity is at issue
in plaintive language. Language of Ruin and Consumption advocates
that a fruitful reception of psychoanalysis in criticism combines
the discussion of psychoanalytical concepts with an adaptation of
the hermeneutical principle ignored in most philosophical
approaches to language, or relegated to mere rhetoric: speech is
not only by someone and on something, but also addressed to
someone.
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