| Autor: |
Félix Joaquín Galván-Díaz |
| Jazyk: |
English<br />Spanish; Castilian<br />Portuguese |
| Rok vydání: |
2023 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
Catedral Tomada: Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana, Vol 11, Iss 20 (2023) |
| Druh dokumentu: |
article |
| ISSN: |
2169-0847 |
| DOI: |
10.5195/ct/2023.592 |
| Popis: |
In this article, I analyze the representation of mourning and melancholia in Jorge Luis Borges’s “Emma Zunz” and “El Aleph.” First, I propose a reconceptualization of mourning and melancholia. Starting from Freud’s premises, I rethink both concepts to argue that mourning is a social activity anchored on social frames and that melancholia comes from the impossibility of the social frame of mourning to carry and signify a loss. Then, I discuss how the short stories represent mourning processes that, in both cases, are difficult to achieve since the social conditions do not allow the mourner to grieve. |
| Databáze: |
Directory of Open Access Journals |
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