Title: Aging and its discontents : Freud and other fictions /
Authors: Woodward, Kathleen M.
Publisher: Indiana University Press,
Year: 1991
Subjects: Freud, Sigmund.; Freud, Sigmund, Influence.; Freud, Sigmund,; Freud, Sigmund,; French literature History and criticism; Aging in literature.; English literature History and criticism; Psychoanalysis and literature.; Aging psychology; Literature; Psychoanalytic Interpretation
Contents: Introduction: aging, difference, and subjectivity -- Reading Freud: aging, castration, and inertia -- The mirror stage of old age: Marcel Proust's The past recaptured -- The look and the gaze: narcissism, aggression, and aging: Virginia Woolf's The years -- Gender, generational identity, and aging: Eva Figes's Waking -- Between mourning and melancholia: Roland Barthes's Camera lucida -- The transitional object of the oldest age: Samuel Beckett's Malone dies -- Youthfulness as a masquerade: denial, resistance, and desire -- Phantasms of the aging body: the companion/empty/fragmenting body.