Language of Ruin and Consumption: On Lamenting and Complaining

Laments and complaints are among the most ancient poetical forms and ubiquitous in everyday speech. Understanding plaintive...
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Author: Juliane Prade-Weiss
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Language of Ruin and Consumption: On Lamenting and Complaining by Prade-Weiss, Juliane

Language of Ruin and Consumption: On Lamenting and Complaining

$150.80

Language of Ruin and Consumption: On Lamenting and Complaining

$150.80
Author: Juliane Prade-Weiss
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Laments and complaints are among the most ancient poetical forms and ubiquitous in everyday speech. Understanding plaintive language, however, is often prevented by the resentment and fear it evokes. Lamenting and complaining seems pointless, irreconcilable, and destructive. Language of Ruin and Consumption examines Freud's approaches to lamenting and complaining, the heart of psychoanalytic therapy and theory, and takes them as guidelines for reading key works of the modern canon. The re-negotiation of older--ritual, dramatic, and juridical--forms in Rilke, Wittgenstein, Scholem, Benjamin, and Kafka puts plaintive language in the center of modern individuality and expounds a fundamental dimension of language neglected in theory: reciprocity is at issue in plaintive language.

Language of Ruin and Consumption advocates that a fruitful reception of psychoanalysis in criticism combines the discussion of psychoanalytical concepts with an adaptation of the hermeneutical principle ignored in most philosophical approaches to language, or relegated to mere rhetoric: speech is not only by someone and on something, but also addressed to someone.

Author: Juliane Prade-Weiss
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 02/24/2022
Pages: 296
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.87lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.61d
ISBN: 9781501372315

About the Author
Juliane Prade-Weiss is Professor of Comparative Literature at Ludwig Maximilian University Munich, Germany. She is editor of (M)Other Tongues: Literary Reflexions on a Difficult Distinction (2013).

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