Elegy John Keats died 2 23 1821 The
- Slides: 10
+ Elegy
John Keats : died 2. 23. 1821
+ The boundaries of “the human” n Wuthering Heights n Thrushcross Grange n Nature n Culture n No books! n Learning n Violence n Pacification n “Animal” n “Human” n Self? n Sympathy? “Progressive” Time?
+ Wuthering Heights: Model(s)? Repetition? Catherine II Heathcliff & Catherine Hareton & Cathy? Edgar Linton Heathcliff? (Characters alive @ the end: Cathy II, Hareton, Nelly, Lockwood, Joseph) Or Progress? Marriage plot, Paradise Lost references, unquiet slumbers?
+ Freud / Mourning & Melancholy n MOURNING n MELANCHOLY n “Healthy” n “Unhealthy” n Achieves “closure” n Refuses “closure” n Unrest n Burial / Rest n Encryption n Disencryption n New object of desire n “Obsession” w/ same object n Developmental Logic n Repetition
FREUD’S MELANCHOLIA COMPARED WITH MOURNING n differences– the disturbance of self-regard in melancholia does not happen in mourning. n Melancholia narcissism n “In – unknown loss (245); regression to mourning, it is the world that is impoverished; in melancholia, it is the ego itself. The patients presents his ego to us as worthless, incapable of any achievement and morally despicable…This picture of a delusion of (mainly moral) inferiority is completed by sleeplessness and refusal to take nourishment, and—what is psychologically very remarkable—by an overcoming of [the life instinct]” (246).
MELANCHOLY: NARCISSISTIC OBJECT CHOICE n“Regression from object-cathexis to the still narcissistic oral phase of the libido” (250). n. Different from mourning, melancholia is marked by self-reproach. (251)
MOURNING n. Mourning impels the ego to give up the object by declaring the object to be dead and offering the ego the inducement of continuing to live, neach single struggle of ambivalence loosens the fixation of the libido to the object by disparaging it… (257)
