Infinite Grief
Freud, Hegel, and Lacan on the Thought of Death
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3775121 |
|---|---|
| Authors | James A Godley (306 Clemens Hall, University at Buffalo, SUNY, Buffalo, NY 14260-4601, USA) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 93-110 |
| Publication date | 2018-11-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Angelaki (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0969-725X • E-ISSN: 1469-2899 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0969725x.2018.1546994 |
| OpenAlex | W2903460721 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 9 |
Postmodern critical assessments of Freud's theory of mourning disavow the idea of grief's conclusiveness, insisting that mourning is an interminable process or even a transcendental structure of experience. However, such assessments presuppose an ontological orientation toward finitude that avoids the profound speculative implications of the non-finite status of death in the unconscious. In consequence, mourning comes to assume an indefinite, generic status as a condition of experience instead of a resolutely speculative confrontation with the impossible real of infinitude. Freud's writings evidence his difficulties with this unconscious disjunction of mourning from finitude, but can be elucidated by turning to Hegel's critical discussion of "infinite grief," the melancholy apprehension of finitude as a spurious infinity. Hegel's analysis in turn anticipates Lacan's elaboration of the death drive as a concept of unconscious transmission. Here, what begins to emerge is a theory of mourning that concerns the speculative inheritance of an immortal object
Apprehension · Epistemology · Existentialism · Grief · Hegelianism · Infinity · Object (grammar · Psychoanalysis · Psychotherapist · Transcendental number · Unconscious mind · Unitary state · Mathematics · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications · Law · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,67 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2025 (3) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |