Aging and Its Discontents: Freud and Other FictionsProvides an analysis of the effect of negative cultural representations on our ideas about getting old. This title argues that in the West ageism, like sexism and racism, is rooted in physical differences and in discrepancies in social power. |
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Reading Freud Aging Castration and Inertia | 26 |
The Mirror Stage of Old Age Marcel Prousts The Past | 53 |
Narcissism Aggression | 73 |
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advanced old age aggressivity aging and old aging body Andesmas Andreas-Salomé anxiety Aschenbach associated Barthes Beauvoir Beckett body in old Camera Lucida castration chapter child culture D. W. Winnicott daughter Death in Venice death instincts desire discourse elderly Eleanor essay experience eyes father fear feel female figure fragmenting body Freudian Freudian psychoanalysis gaze gender gerontophobia grief identification identity imagine infant insists Interpretation of Dreams introjection Jacques Lacan Lacan Letter from Freud literary literature lives look loss Malone Malone Dies Marcel masquerade melancholia Melanie Klein metaphor middle-aged mirror stage mother Mourning and Melancholia narcissism narcissistic novel Oedipus complex older one's ourselves pain Past Recaptured phantasm photograph pleasure Pontalis psychic psychoanalysis relation representations represented Roland Barthes Sartre scene sense sexual social stage of old story texts theory trans transitional object uncanny unconscious Waking Winnicott woman women Woolf's writes York young youth