Mourning and Subjectivity: From Bersani to Proust, Klein, and Freud

Jacques derrida made a similar move in 2003 when he dropped his guard, abandoning the language of critical exposition to point out, with uncharacteristic bluntness ("de façon plus crue" [18]), the relevance of autobiography-his experience as a jewish boy in algeria-to the development of de...

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Published in:Diacritics 2007-03, Vol.37 (1), p.41-53
Main Author: Lerner, L. Scott
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Collaboration
Essays
French literature
Human subjects
Proust, Marcel (1871-1922)
Psychoanalysis
Subjectivity
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Summary:Jacques derrida made a similar move in 2003 when he dropped his guard, abandoning the language of critical exposition to point out, with uncharacteristic bluntness ("de façon plus crue" [18]), the relevance of autobiography-his experience as a jewish boy in algeria-to the development of deconstruction.1 In both instances, one senses a desire for intellectual self-exposure,2 to dis-cover the relation of real-world experience and intellectual-critical, aesthetic, psychic-practices. In subsequent studies of painting, sculpture, and film undertaken in collaboration with dutoit, and solo essays on Plato and Pierre Michon, bersani has pursued with increasing clarity of purpose the central critique introduced in the culture of redemption, of the ways in which major artists and psychoanalytic theorists present our relations with others through a narrative of appropriation and annihilation, of subjects obliterating objects by adopting techniques of projection, introjection, and identification.
ISSN:0300-7162
1080-6539
1080-6539
DOI:10.1353/dia.0.0019