Mussgnug, F;
(2015)
Apocalyptic Narcissism and the Difficulty of Mourning.
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10.13125/2039-6597/2214.
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Abstract
In this article I examine how death and loss feature in recent apocalypse fiction and suggest that, in a genre mostly concerned with finitude, there appears to be paradoxically little room for expressions of mourning. I assess contemporary attitudes towards mortality through the writings of Philippe Ariès, Zygmunt Bauman, Simon Critchley and others, and propose a psychoanalytic reading of solitary survivor narrative, inspired by the work of Martin Jay. In the final part of the article, I turn to Sigmund Freud and René Girard to explore the relation between apocalyptic teleology, melancholy, and the expectation of global catastrophe.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Apocalyptic Narcissism and the Difficulty of Mourning |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.13125/2039-6597/2214 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.13125/2039-6597/2214 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © 2015 The authors. Published under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence 3.0 (CC BY 3.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), authors retain the copyright, allowing anyone to download, reuse, re-print, modify, distribute and/or copy their contribution. The work must be properly attributed to its author. |
| Keywords: | death; mourning; apocalypse; Sigmund Freud; Rene Girard |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > SELCS |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1503528 |
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