Absolute Ambivalence
On Modernity and Its Corpses
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6421171 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Cesare Casarino (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 129 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 203-218 |
| Publication date | 2025-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cultural Critique (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0882-4371 • E-ISSN: 1460-2458 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/cul.2025.a973872 |
| OpenAlex | W4415849859 |
| Language | EN |
Starting from the COVID-19 pandemic—and engaging with works by Sigmund Freud, Walter Benjamin, Jacques Lacan, Michel Foucault, Douglas Crimp, Judith Butler, and others—this essay speculates on the psychic situation of having to work through loss in the absence of the loved one’s corpse. This article also puts forth a concept of “absolute ambivalence” understood as the beyond of the mourning-melancholia dialectic and ultimately relates this concept to the ties that bind the emergence and development of modernity to genocide
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |