Culture, comparativity, and psychoanalysis. Reply to commentary
- Freud's discussion of melancholy in >Mourning and Melancholia< includes an account of identification as the incorporation of the lost object. This essay first seeks to establish a relation between that incorporative identification and the formation of >the bodily ego.< It then seeks to situate this melancholic condition of the bodily ego in terms of the >loss< of the same-sexed object under prevalent conditions of compulsory heterosexuality. This >loss< might be better understood on the model of foreclosure, suggesting that it is a loss resolved into a melancholic identification and hence central to the formation of same-sex gender identification. This account of the melancholic consequences of a disavowed homosexual attachment is then situated in terms of contemporary conditions of grief over the loss by AIDS of so many gay men. The suggestion here is that the cultural >unreality< of that >loss< may be attributable to the foreclosed status of homosexual love as that which >never was< and >never was lost.<
MetadatenVerfasserangaben: | Judith Dimen |
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Titel des übergeordneten Werkes (Englisch): | Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 05 (1995), pp. 165-180. |
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Dokumentart: | Artikel / Beiträge |
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Sprache: | Englisch |
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Jahr der Erstveröffentlichung: | 1995 |
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Datum der Freischaltung: | 20.11.2017 |
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Format: | xerox upon request / Fotokopie auf Anfrage |
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ID-Nr.: | Dimen_J_1995 |
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Bibliothek von Erich Fromm und Erich Fromm-Archiv: | Articles / Artikel |
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