Original scientific paper

MOURNING OR MELANCHOLIA?: PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE ECONOMIC PROBLEM OF DERRIDA’S MARXISM

Tatjana Jukić ; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of English, Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

Taking up Freud’s positions on economy and mourning where they depend
on the contact they organize with melancholia, Jukić proposes a critical reading
of Jacques Derrida’s assemblage of mourning and economy in Specters of
Marx: the State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning and the New International.
Given the fact that melancholia in Freud calls into question what psychoanalysis
wants to define as economy, yet is conspicuously absent from Derrida’s
otherwise Freudian configuration of the work-and-economy of mourning in
his book on Marx, Jukić addresses Freud’s approach to work in “Trauer und
Melancholie” and proposes that work in Marx be analyzed not against mourning
but against Freudian and, more importantly still, pre-Freudian configurations
of melancholia.

Keywords

melancholia; work; economy; Marxism; Freud; Derrida

Hrčak ID:

71123

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/71123

Publication date:

21.6.2011.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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