Notes on Loving a Mourner (with Roland Barthes and Others)

Paragraph ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 211-227
Author(s):  
Matt Phillips
Keyword(s):  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
Ethics Of Care ◽  
Roland Barthes ◽  
Melanie Klein ◽  
Personal Observation ◽  
Late Work ◽  
Point Of Departure

This essay examines the place of love in grief, staging a relation between a mourner and her lover. Taking as its point of departure Freud's observation that mourning leads to a ‘loss of the capacity to love’, it considers the effects bereavement might have on the bereaved's relations with those that love them, and the possibilities, pitfalls and ethics of care in such a context. This is explored largely through a reading of Roland Barthes's late work (both as a writer of grief and a theorist of love), as well as ideas drawn from Sigmund Freud, Melanie Klein, Sara Ahmed, Hamlet and personal observation. Love and care are thought through alongside notions of ‘tact’, ‘benevolence’ and ‘parrying against reduction’ in late Barthes.

scholarly journals Nós poéticos de José Paulo Paes

2017 ◽  
Vol 34 ◽  
pp. 31
Author(s):  
Maria Mirtis Caser ◽  
Silvana Athayde Pinheiro
Keyword(s):  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
Roland Barthes

José Paulo Paes elegeu o epigrama como forma recorrente de sua poesia. Além disso, o humor e a ironia são também marcas evidentes em seus versos. Sob esse modo poético, há a fluência entre o grande e o pequeno, o local e o universal, a parte e o todo, a criança e o adulto, a vida e a morte, o que não implica em contraposição entre polos, mas em trânsito entre esferas que se interpenetram. O epigramático por vezes se apresenta em variadas feições poéticas que articulam esses pares, como no poema que é objeto de análise deste artigo, “Ode à minha perna esquerda”, do livro Prosas seguidas de odes mínimas (1992). O poema matiza pontos de contato entre a vida e a obra poética de Paes, portanto, apresenta um perfil autobiográfico. Para realizar tal análise, o trabalho procurou se pautar principalmente nas categorias de fragmento, segundo Roland Barthes (1977) e de unheimlich, conforme descrito nos registros de Sigmund Freud (1976).

Beauvoir and the Risks of Freedom

PMLA ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 124 (1) ◽  
pp. 224-230 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Kristeva
Keyword(s):  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
Marcel Proust ◽  
Melanie Klein ◽  
Simone De Beauvoir ◽  
The Past ◽  
Louis Aragon ◽  
Jean Paul ◽  
Society Of The Spectacle ◽  
The Status ◽  
The University

Julia Kristeva's recent interest in the work of Simone De Beauvoir stems from a concern to identify transformative possibilities in the “society of the spectacle”—a term Kristeva appropriates from Guy Debord to diagnose contemporary society's reduction of personal identity, sociality, and meaning to the status of mere representation. Over the last fifteen years, the spectacle constitutes one of the central notions employed by Kristeva to measure the significance of twentieth-century figures as diverse as Sigmund Freud, Marcel Proust, Jean-Paul Sartre, Louis Aragon, and Roland Barthes (discussed in The Sense and Non-sense of Revolt and Intimate Revolt), as well as the three women she addresses in her biographical trilogy on female genius—Hannah Arendt, Melanie Klein, and Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette. In 1996, in The Sense and Non-sense of Revolt, Kristeva promised to return to the work of Beauvoir in the light of her analyses of Sartrean revolt. The past several years have begun to fulfill that promise. In 2002 Kristeva dedicated the conclusion to her trilogy on female genius to Beauvoir, and in 2003 she presented a lecture entitled “Beauvoir présente,” subsequently included in La haine et le pardon in 2005. The essay published here was presented in January 2008 as the keynote lecture at a conference in celebration of Beauvoir's centenary, which was initiated by a committee from the University of Paris 7 chaired by Kristeva.

scholarly journals Neutral Life: Roland Barthes’ Late Work – An Introduction

2020 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 3-34
Author(s):  
Sunil Manghani
Keyword(s):  
Roland Barthes ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Late Work ◽  
Collège De France ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Entire Career ◽  
Lecture Courses ◽  
Late Works ◽  
Lead Article

As the introduction and lead article for a special issue of Theory, Culture & Society, ‘Neutral Life/Late Barthes’, this article offers an overview of the ‘new’ Barthes that emerges from the late writings and recent ‘Barthes Studies’. The account centres upon the posthumous publication of Barthes’ three key lecture courses delivered at the Collège de France, at the end of the 1970s, which reflect his preoccupation with the everyday, yet reveal a new degree of sophistication, both formal and conceptual. Presented in their original note form, the lectures present perhaps the clearest (if incomplete) affirmative project of Barthes’ entire career. The Neutral in particular is pivotal in understanding an ethics of the late works. While Barthes is perhaps most cited for his rumination on the temporality of the photograph, the lecture courses give rise to an ethics of space and distance, rather than of time and telos. Crucially, for Barthes, the Neutral is not neutrality; it is not divestment, but ‘an ardent, burning activity’. In establishing Barthes’ ethics of a Neutral Life, the articles closes – with reference to Derrida’s mourning of Barthes – with a reminder to read Barthes again, or rather a reminder of our current postponed reading of him.

scholarly journals THE CHARACTERIZATION ANALYSIS OF ROB HALL IN EVEREST: NEVER LET GO FILM 2015

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 71
Author(s):  
Risna Budiarti ◽  
Nani Ronsani Thamrin
Keyword(s):  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
Moral Values ◽  
Roland Barthes ◽  
Moral Value ◽  
Psychological Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Descriptive Method

This research focuses on Rob Hall�s characterizations and moral values found in �Everest: Never Let Go� Film. The aims of this research are to find out Rob Hall�s characterizations portrayed in the Film Everest: Never Let Go and the moral values of the Film. The researcher used the theory about psychological analysis (based on Sigmund Freud in Schultz, 2005) to find out Rob characters through his words or sentences in script of Everest; Never Let Go Film and semiotics theory (based on Roland Barthes, 1968, 1990, 1991) to find out the characteristics of Rob Hall through pictures or signs which show his character in Film �Everest: Never Let Go� with print screen of each pictures or signs, and theory of moral value based on George and Uyanga (2014). Qualitative descriptive method was used by the researcher to find out the characteristic of Rob Hall in Everest: Never Let Go Film and the moral values of Rob Hall characterized in the Film. As result, the researcher found 6 characterizations of Rob Hall in Everest: Never Let Go Film, those are Honest, Sociable, Responsible, Assertive, Attentive, and Pessimistic. While, the moral values from this Film was that a leader should be able to support, keep, help, open, responsible, honest, assertive, wise attitude, sacrifice, and direct their team towards better.Keywords: Characterization Analysis, Rob Hall, Everest: Never Let Go Film, Pyschological Analysis, Semiotics, Moral Value

scholarly journals Partidas

Novos Olhares ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 7-14
Author(s):  
Maria Cristina Castilho Costa
Keyword(s):  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
Jacques Lacan ◽  
Roland Barthes

Este artigo estuda aspectos psicossociais da cultura em importantes momentos da existência humana, como a morte e o desenvolvimento da subjetividade e individuação, enfocando os sentimentos, emoções e conflitos que cada uma dessas etapas faz emergir. Nesse contexto, aborda como mitos, ritos, símbolos e linguagens possibilitam elaborar esses processos de um ponto de vista individual e coletivo, permitindo a superação dos conflitos e ambivalências que os acompanham. Nesse processo, meios e linguagens, bem como a construção da memória, se tornam especialmente importantes. Autores como Jacques Lacan, Sigmund Freud e Roland Barthes, entre outros, dão suporte teórico às análises. O mito de Antígona, transcrito na obra de Sófocles, ajuda a desenvolver o tema.

Keep your distance!

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 102-107
Author(s):  
Robert Heim
Keyword(s):  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
Melanie Klein

Der Autor vertritt die Hypothese, dass mit der Corona-Krise die Welt gerade dabei ist, von einer langen Epoche der Zerstreuung Abschied zu nehmen. Ausgangspunkt dafür ist Pascals kurze Bemerkung, alles Unglück der Menschen rühre von ihrer Unfähigkeit, ruhig in einem Zimmer zu sitzen. Im Kontrast zu den global erforderten Werten der Kooperation und Solidarität zur Bekämpfung der Krise beschreibt er die ebenso wichtige Fähigkeit des Menschen, allein sein zu können, ja nötigenfalls Einsamkeit zu ertragen. Der Autor erörtert diese Fähigkeit anhand Schopenhauers Parabel der Stachelschweine, ein ironisches Modell menschlichen Zusammenlebens, das mit dem englischen Keep your distance! das neue Leitwort unserer Gegenwart bereits enthält. Er untermauert diese Fähigkeit mit psychoanalytischen Erkenntnissen von Sigmund Freud, Donald W. Winnicott und Melanie Klein.

A Dark Trace

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Herman Westerink
Keyword(s):  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
Psychoanalytic Theory ◽  
Central Issue ◽  
Melanie Klein ◽  
Mental Life ◽  
Freudian Psychoanalysis ◽  
Individual Life ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
Carl Gustav Jung

Sigmund Freud, in his search for the origins of the sense of guilt in individual life and culture, regularly speaks of “reading a dark trace”, thus referring to the Oedipus myth as a myth on the problem of human guilt. The sense of guilt is indeed a trace that leads deep into the individual’s mental life, into his childhood life, and into the prehistory of culture and religion. In this book this trace is followed and thus Freud’s thought on the sense of guilt as a central issue in his work is analyzed, from the earliest studies on the moral and “guilty” characters of the hysterics, via the later complex differentiations in the concept of the sense of guilt, unto the analyses of civilization’s discontents and Jewish sense of guilt. The sense of guilt is a key issue in Freudian psychoanalysis, not only in relation to other key concepts in psychoanalytic theory, but also in relation to debates with others, such as Carl Gustav Jung or Melanie Klein, Freud was engaged in.

Political Acts and Terrorism

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (53) ◽  
pp. 111-122
Author(s):  
Jane Duran ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Ethics Of Care ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
Point Of Departure

Recent work in the ethics of care is used as a point of departure for thought about the kinds of social conditions that lead to terrorism. Allusion is made to the work of Bayoumi, Held and others, and it is concluded that political acts of terror are often a response to a climate of hostility, including microaggression.

scholarly journals Reading Proust in Barthes's Journal de deuil

2014 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 102-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Watt
Keyword(s):  
Critical Reflection ◽  
Roland Barthes ◽  
Point Of Departure

This article contributes to ongoing critical reflection on the place of Marcel Proust's writings in the œuvre of Roland Barthes, through a reading of Barthes's Journal de deuil. I explore the explicit references made to Proust as well as the more indirect or involuntary traces of À la recherche that surface in the notes that make up the Journal. These are read comparatively with references made to Proust, mourning, memory and writing that figure in Barthes's contemporary works, notably the lecture ‘“Longtemps, je me suis couché de bonne heure”’, Fragments d'un discours amoureux and La Chambre claire. I argue that Proust's place in the Journal de deuil, Barthes's most intimate of texts, is almost inevitable since, by Barthes's own avowal, Proust's writings were – like Barthes's mother up until that point – a constant in his life, a point of departure and return.

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