By fostering a belief in the unknowability of objective reality and the impending end of the world, the Decadents situate themselves in opposition to what was satisfying, healthy, and present. Drawing on psychoanalytic studies of mourning from Freud and Melanie Klein to Donald Winnicott and Nicolas Abraham and Maria Torok, this book examines the unique way in which the Decadents defined loss as a precondition to literary creation.
- ISBN10 087413773X
- ISBN13 9780874137736
- Publish Date 7 January 2002
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Associated University Presses
- Imprint University of Delaware Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 192
- Language English