| Description |
x, 187 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. Introduction: this book's body -- 2. Whole wounds: bodies at the vanishing point -- 3. Immobile legs, stalled words: psychoanalysis and moving deaths -- 4. Uncovered rectums: disinterring the Rose Theatre -- 5. Bloody nose, loose noose: hearing Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas -- 6. Shattered skulls: Rodney King and Holbein's The Ambassadors -- 7. Failed live(r)s: whatever happened to her public grief? In memory of Rena Grant (1959-1992) -- 8. Infected eyes: Dying Man With A Movie Camera, Silverlake Life: The View From Here. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [174]-180) and index. |
| Subject |
Psychic trauma.
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Loss (Psychology)
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Grief.
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Psychoanalysis and culture.
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Bereavement -- Psychological aspects -- Cross-cultural studies.
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| ISBN |
0415147581 hardback |
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041514759X paperback |
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