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