Review article
https://doi.org/10.31192/np.14.1.7
The Concept of Mourning in Roland Barthes and Jacques Derrida
Matej Vidaković
Abstract
This article depicts the concept of mourning as it is depicted in Roland Barthes’ Mourning Diary and Jacques Derrida’s "Rams: Uninterrupted Dialogue between Two Infinities, the Poem". Derrida’s discourse is based on a lecture given as an obituary given to his friend, philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer. The article incorporates Derrida’s thoughts in this text in his broader reflections on loss and death, since those are some of the topics he kept returning to in his work. One of the objectives of this expanded view is to present these somewhat neglected areas of Barthes’s and Derrida’s opuses as elaborated in the primary texts. The other objective is to bring the following thesis forward: Derrida and Barthes represent two sides of the same coin, two different streams of thought about loss, mourning and the unrepeatability of the experience of the Other. Their ways of thinking about these topics can complement each other and be subsumed under two archetypes: Sisyphus and the Antlanteans.
Keywords
mourning; death; loss; the Other; Sisyphus and the Antlanteans archetypes
Hrčak ID:
154332
URI
Publication date:
15.3.2016.
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