Lexington Books
Pages: 180
Trim: 6½ x 9
978-1-7936-1775-0 • Hardback • May 2021 • $105.00 • (£81.00)
978-1-7936-1776-7 • eBook • May 2021 • $45.00 • (£35.00)
Adriana Bauab is vice president of the Freudian School of Buenos Aires and former director and professor of the postgraduate course in psychoanalysis at the Centro de Salud Mental N° 3 Dr. Ameghino.
Chapter 1: Mourning: A Psychoanalytical Concept
Chapter 2: The Subjectivating Function of Mourning
Chapter 3: Sexuation and Mourning
Chapter 4: Mourning for the Father
Chapter 5: Mourning and the Body
Chapter 6: Mourning and the Limit of the Structure
Chapter 7: Mourning in the Polis
This book offers a thorough analysis of interrupting mourning processes, incorporating frameworks from both Freud and Lacan. Adriana Bauab incisively investigates mourning as a process of recovering from the unbearable castration of the Other, examining the complexities of mourning as demonstrated by characters such as Antigone and Hamlet. Mourning, Bauab proposes, means grief for the loss as well as a challenge to the integrity of human structure.
— Patricia Leyack, Freudian School of Buenos Aires