Reviews
The book discusses emotions and mental states in depth, so you can learn a lot about mental processes in general, not only mourning.
Psychoanalysis can easily become absorbed in one peculiar thing, but surprisingly, that very thing can also become the key that unlocks everything.
Pierre-Louis Port: Mother and Daughter, Writing of Mourning
A mother who was sometimes loved and sometimes feared, both good and bad, present or absent: this is how they bury this extraordinary other. Published by Moonji, Pierre-Louis Fort's Mothers and Daughters, Writing Mourning: Yourcenar, Beauvoir, Ernaux brings together the work of a French literary scholar and professor at CY Cergy Paris University, whose research has used literary and psychoanalytic approaches to reach both specialists and general readers. Because the woman I is both her mother's 'double and separate being,' her mother's death shakes her sense of identity. The world without her mother, part of her and the root of her existence, cannot be lived in the same way as the world that had her mother. The weight of the self that has been cut away changes the weight within and the weight of the world. Faced with loss that shakes the soul, those left behind must pass through mourning in order to live. Mourning is not simply a matter of bringing sadness to an end; it means reconstructing a way of being in a world without her. The daughters who write return to the source of their wounds through writing, seeking the strength and wisdom to go on living. Mourning is also a matter of saving oneself. Each of the three authors did this in her own way.
Korean title: 어머니와 딸, 애도의 글쓰기
Korean author: 피에르루이 포르
Korean publisher: 문학과지성사
ISBN-13: 9788932042688
Reviews
The book discusses emotions and mental states in depth, so you can learn a lot about mental processes in general, not only mourning.
Psychoanalysis can easily become absorbed in one peculiar thing, but surprisingly, that very thing can also become the key that unlocks everything.
