Women and Ireland as Beckett's Lost Others: Beyond Mourning and Melancholia [Hardcover]

This study investigates the relationship between emotion, memory, exile and the poetics of grieving in Beckett's works. Using a psychoanalytic framework, this monograph traces discourses of mourning (Klein), melancholia (Freud) and abjection (Kristeva) in Beckett's texts, and demonstrates how Ireland and women are often the objects of loss.Introduction Severing Connections with Ireland: Women and the Irish Free State in Beckett's Early Fiction Memories and Melancholia: Women and Ireland in Beckett's Early French Fiction The Gendering of Mourning and Melancholia in Beckett's Early Drama Beyond Mourning and Melancholia: Kleinian Approaches The Kleinian Work of Mourning in Beckett's Late Works Conclusion: 'Stirrings Still' Notes Bibliography IndexRINA KIM is Lecturer in Drama at?the University of Auckland, New Zealand.