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Den kamp som står central för Antigone i dramat med samma namn, är vikten av begravningen. Här har jag visat hur ett skifte i sorgpraktiker stod i relation till politiska reformer som pågick under övergången till det klassiska Grekland. Hur Antigone är en berättelse som tar upp och bearbetar konflikter som uppstår i denna kulturs övergång från en sedlig och familje-orienterad kultur till en stats-styrd och moraliskt orienterad kultur. Det introducerades en ekonomi av ersättbarhet, som ville tona ner det unika i individen för att statsmakten skulle växa sig starkare och tona ner konflikter av hämnd. Jag har även visat hur vissa tidigare läsningar och tolkningar av Antigone haft en tendens att fascineras av den självklarhet med vilken hon går mot sin egna undergång. Hur hennes död framstår som något vackert och skönt, i vart fall hos Jaques Lacan. Här har jag föreslagit en alternativ läsning där Antigones död egentligen kan ses som en reaktion på en oerkänd och felriktad sorgprocess. Det är inte då längre något upphöjt utan snarare visar det oss något djupt olyckligt i bristen på rättigheter och erkännande. Att Antigone tar sitt liv - vilket i sig genererar en kedja av tragiska händelser - kan få sin förklaring i att hon drabbats av melankoli. Melankolin kommer av att hon av staten och sin morbror, inte fick tillgång att leva ut sin sorg eller ens erkännas sin sorg på riktigt vis. Melankolin har jag lokaliserat med stöd av Sigmund Freuds beskrivning. Jag har även med hjälp av Judith Butler visat att värdet av liv regleras genom olika värdesystem och normer för uppfattande och erkännande. Att dessa normer och erkännanden även hänger tätt i hop med ett livs sörjbarhet när det går förlorat. Med stöd av Tina Chanter har jag även poängterat att Antigone många gånger använts som ett verktyg för protest, då dramat belyser just detta med värdesystem. Att stå utan ett erkännande, att bli förvisad till en plats i marginalen frammanar även en position av social död.  Vad det är som gör att Antigone så idogt strävar efter detta att få begrava sin broder och vad denna begravning representerar mer än endast en begravning, hänger samman med just ett behov av erkännande. Att vara människa är bland annat att vara i relation, att vara ett subjekt och att ha ett språk. Att förnekas detta, att stå med ett uteblivet erkännande av relationer där förlusten av det man saknar varken får en medveten eller given uttalad plats, kan skapa ett tillstånd av melankoli. När Antigone protesterar mot Kreons dikret står hon upp för rätten att sörja.  Melankoli uppstår där en sorg inte blivit medvetandegjord och jaget därmed inte klarar att sörja. Melankoli gröper ur jaget, känslan av meningsfullhet förloras, den kan driva en mot sin egna upplösning.

L’esthétique de Madame de Staël and Mary Shelley discute l’art de l’improvisation et le concept de l’enthousiasme dans les écrits de ces deux auteurs. Dans ce projet, j’explore l’esthétique d’improvisation et d’enthousiasme de Madame de Staël dans Corinne, en me référant à son autre roman Delphine, à sa pièce de théâtre Sapho, et à ses nouvelles ainsi qu’à ses textes philosophiques comme De l’Allemagne, De l’influence des passions, et De la littérature. J’argumente que Madame de Staël représente à travers le caractère de Corinne une esthétique anti-utilitaire. J’explique qu’elle évoque des valeurs cosmopolites qui valorisent une culture indigène qui est en opposition avec l’impérialisme de Napoléon. De plus, j’examine comment les improvisations de Corinne dérivent d’un enthousiasme qui est associé à la définition que Platon offre du terme. Ceci est évident par la signification que Madame de Staël présente du terme dans De L’Allemagne. J’interprète la maladie de Corinne comme étant d’origine psychosomatique qui est manifesté par la perte de son génie et par un suicide lent qui est une expression de colère contre la patriarchie. Le caractère de Corinne permet à Madame de Staël d’explorer le conflit que les femmes artistes éprouvaient entre ayant une carrière artistique et adhérant à l’idéologie domestique. Chapitre deux se concentre sur l’intérêt que Shelley démontre sur l’art de l’improvisation comme elle l’exprime dans ses lettres à propos de l’improvisateur Tommaso Sgricci. Malgré sa fascination avec la poésie extemporanée, Shelley regrette que cette forme d’art soit évanescente. Aussi, j’examine son enthousiasme pour un autre artiste, Nicolò Paganini. Son enchantement avec se violoniste virtuose est lié à des discours concernant le talent surnaturel des improvisateurs. J’argumente qu’il y a un continuum d’improvisation entre les balades orales du peuple et les improvisations de culture sophistiqué des improvisateurs de haute société. J’estime que les Shelleys collaboraient à définir une théorie d’inspiration à travers leurs intérêts pour l’art de l’improvisation. Chapitre trois considère le lien entre cosmologie et esthétique d’inspiration à travers la fonction de la musique, spécialement La Création de Joseph Haydn, dans The Last Man de Shelley. J’examine la représentation du sublime des Alpes dans le roman à travers de discours qui associent les Alpes avec les forces primordiales de la création. Les rôles de la Nécessité, Prophétie, et du Temps peuvent être compris en considérant la musique des sphères. Chapitre quatre explore les différentes définitions de terme enthousiasme dans les écrits de Shelley, particulièrement Valperga et The Last Man. Je discute l’opinion de Shelley sur Madame de Staël comme suggéré dans Lives. J’analyse les caractères qui ressemblent à Corinne dans les écrits de Shelley. De plus, je considère les sens multiples du mot enthousiasme en relation avec la Guerre civil d’Angleterre et la Révolution française. Je présente comment le terme enthousiasme était lié au cours du dix-septième siècle avec des discours médicales concernant la mélancolie et comment ceci est reflété dans les caractères de Shelley. / The Aesthetics of Madame de Staël and Mary Shelley discusses the art of improvisation and the concept of enthusiasm in the writings of these two authors. In this project, I explore Madame de Staël’s aesthetics of improvisation and enthusiasm as represented in Corinne by drawing from her other novel Delphine, her play Sapho, and her short stories as well as her philosophical texts such as De l’Allemagne, De l’influence des passions, and De la littérature. I argue that Madame de Staël embraces through Corinne an anti-utilitarian aesthetic. I maintain that she represents a cosmopolitanism that values indigenous culture as opposed to Napoleon’s Imperialism. Furthermore, I examine how Corinne’s improvisations derive from an enthusiasm that can be associated to Plato’s elucidation of the term in Phaedrus and in Ion. This is evident by Madame de Staël’s own definition of enthusiasm as presented in the closing chapters of her De l’Allemagne. I interpret Corinne’s illness that is manifested in the loss of her genius as having psychosomatic origins and as being a slow suicide that is an expression of anger against patriarchy. The character of Corinne allows Madame de Staël to explore the conflict that women artists faced between having an artistic career and adhering to the domestic ideology. Chapter two focuses on the interest that Shelley takes in the art of improvisation as is manifested in her letters about the improvisator Tommaso Sgricci. Despite her fascination with extempore poetry, she regrets that this art form is evanescent. Moreover, I examine her enthusiastic response to another artist, Nicolò Paganini. Her fascination with this virtuoso violinist is linked to discourses about the unnatural talent of improvisatores. I argue there is a continuum of improvisation from the ballad form of the common people to the high-cultured improvisatore. I hold that the Shelleys were collaborating in defining the theory of inspiration through their interest in the art of improvisation. Chapter three considers the link between cosmology and aesthetics of inspiration through the function of music, especially Joseph Haydn’s The Creation, in Shelley’s The Last Man. I examine the representation of the sublimity of the Alps in the narrative through discourses that associate the Alps with the primordial forces of creation. The roles of Necessity, Prophecy, and Time can be understood in the novel by taking into account the notion of the music of the spheres. Chapter four explores the different meanings of the word enthusiasm in Shelley’s writings, primarily in Valperga and The Last Man. I discuss Shelley’s views on Madame de Staël as presented in Lives. I analyze Corinne-inspired characters in Shelley’s texts. In addition, I consider the meaning of enthusiasm in Shelley’s writings in relation to the English Civil War and the French Revolution. I present how enthusiasm was linked in the seventeenth-century to medical discourses about melancholia and how this is reflected in Shelley’s characters.

[pt] A dor vem tem sido tomada como um mal-estar tipicamente contemporâneo, opinião que instigou essa investigação teórica e permitiu identificar a problemática da alteridade e a condição solipsista da subjetividade. Os casos clínicos que apresentam dores físicas crônicas serviram de base para questionar qual seria o lugar da dor na teoria psicanalítica, através de uma metodologia que é percorrer o discurso freudiano na tentativa de compreender de que dor se trata, objetivo principal deste levantamento. O caminho percorrido inicia-se no final do século XIX, quando a linguagem freudiana está ainda muito relacionada à medicina, ponto esse que viabiliza uma importante distinção entre a dor para a medicina e para a psicanálise, e se estende até os textos do final da obra freudiana. A pesquisa realizada trouxe um impasse: como pensar psicanaliticamente uma dor que é física? A resposta vem do próprio discurso freudiano que, ciente da problemática corpo-mente, aproxima dor física e dor psíquica. Além deste apontamento pôde-se também vislumbrar uma associação da dor física com a melancolia, e com a inibição das funções do eu – aproximações que servem de base para escolher certos manejos clínicos. / [en] Pain is considered as a typically contemporary malaise, an opinion which motivated our theoretical investigation and permitted to identify the problem of otherness and solipsistic condition of modern subjectivity. The clinical cases of chronic physical pain served as a basis for studying the place of pain in the psychoanalytic theory and use the methodology of travelling through the Freudian discourse in an attempt to understand what pain is this pain, which is the main objective of this survey. The path begins in the late nineteenth century, when Freudian language was still related to medicine, and this period allows an important distinction between pain for medicine and pain for psychoanalysis, and continues to the final Freudian texts. The survey brought an impasse: how to think psychoanalytically a pain that is physical? The answer comes from the Freudian discourse that, aware of the problematic relationship between mind and body approaches physical pain and psychic pain. In addition to this, I could also discover an association between physical pain with melancholy and with the inhibition of functions of the ego - these associations serve as the basis for choosing certain clinical managements.

L'objectif de nos recherches consiste à définir la notion d'extravagance en l'inscrivant dans le contexte qui en voit l'essor littéraire, de l'année 1623 (avec L'Histoire comique de Francion de Sorel) à 1666 (avec Le Misanthrope de Molière et Le Roman bourgeois de Furetière) ; il s'agit de montrer comment cette notion rend compte des enjeux socioculturels, littéraires et esthétiques du premier XVIIe siècle. Nos travaux s'inscrivent dans une perspective pluridisciplinaire : l'extravagance convoque à la fois le domaine de la médecine, l'histoire des traitements et de l'enfermement du fou, la question philosophique des rapports réversibles entre folie et sagesse, domaines que nous étudions en miroir des représentations littéraires de la déraison. Le trouble qui atteint l'extravagant perturbe son imagination en n'altérant que faiblement son entendement. Un savoir mal maîtrisé et des lectures nocives, qui sont souvent des romans, sont la cause de son délire : contrairement à l'idiot, son esprit n'est pas vide, mais interprète de manière erronée ce qu'il perçoit du monde. Ce trouble de l'esprit l'amène également à s'écarter du comportement prescrit dans l'espace social. Face au modèle de l'honnête homme, défini par les traités de civilité, l'extravagant est incapable de respecter les codes de la bienséance et de la politesse. Cette lecture nous permet de proposer une interprétation renouvelée des types comiques que l'on trouve dans les comédies et les histoires comiques des années 1620-1660, tels le capitan-matamore, le pédant, le provincial, etc... / The purpose of our research is to define extravagance by looking at this notion in context when it experienced its first literary successes, that is from 1623 (with L'Histoire comique de Francion by Sorel) to 1666 (Le Misanthrope by Molière and Le Roman bourgeois by Furetière). We therefore aim at showing how it illustrated sociocultural, literary and esthetical issues in the early seventeenth century. Our research is carried along pluridisciplinary lines: extravagance deals at the same time with medicine, the history of cures and the imprisonment of the insane and the philosophical question of reversible links between madness and wisdom, and this is why I am studying these fields while analysing literary representations of madness. The extravagant's disorder disturbs his imagination without really impairing his understanding. Uncontrolled knowledge and noxious readings, which are often novels, are responsible for his madness. Unlike the fool, his mind is not empty, but it blurs the way in which he perceives the world. Such mental confusion also makes him move away from accepted social behaviours. As opposed to the model of the honest man as defined by treatises of courtesy, the extravagant man cannot abide by proprieties and polite codes. This perspective leads me to formulate a new interpretation of the comic characters we can find in comedies and comic novels from the 1620-1660 era, such as the braggart, the pedant, the countryman, and so on...

This essay examines how grief, melancholy and irony interact in the poetry collections Hej då, ha det så bra! (2003) by Kristina Lugn and Det här är hjärtat (2015) by Bodil Malmsten. The authorships have their similarities and differences when it comes to the themes and language of their poetry. In Malmsten’s collection of poetry, grief is more present than usual and for Lugn, the feeling of melancholy is much heavier in this collection of poetry compared to her previous ones. Although the poetry collections differ in theme, the feeling of grief and melancholy is common between them. The concept of irony is examined in the essay as an antipole to grief and if irony could help the authors poetic self get distance from their grief. In my examination of the concept of melancholia and irony, I have discovered that they differ between men and women. This is interesting when it comes to how women write poetry in the concept of irony and melancholia. This will be used in my essay to better understand how Lugn and Malmsten work within these themes. To explore grief and melancholy in the poetry, I will use Freud’s essay “The Mourning of Melancholia” (1917), Kristeva’s Black sun: depression and melancholia (1989) and also Karin Johannsson’s Melankoliska rum (2009) to give a clear history of the concept of grief and melancholia and the many aspects of it. / I denna uppsats undersöks hur sorg, melankoli och ironi samspelar i diktsamlingarna Hej då, ha det så bra! (2003) av Kristina Lugn och Det här är hjärtat (2015) av Bodil Malmsten.  Författarskapen har sina likheter och skillnader när det gäller dikternas stämning och språk. Diktsamlingarna skiljer sig även från författarnas tidigare verk. För Malmsten är sorgen mer närvarande än någonsin och hos Lugn är känslan av melankoli tyngre i denna diktsamling jämfört med tidigare diktsamlingar. Även om diktsamlingarna skiljer sig i tematik, finns ändå en gemensam känsla av sorg och melankoli. Begreppet ironi undersöks i uppsatsen som en motpol till sorgen, om ironin kan hjälpa till att distansera diktjaget från sorgen eller om ironin kan skapa ett behov att uttrycka sorgen, likt bekännelselitteraturen.  I min analys av begreppen melankoli och ironi har jag stött på att det skiljer sig mellan hur män och kvinnor skriver. Detta är intressant när det kommer till hur kvinnor skriver poesi inom begreppen ironi och melankoli, och detta kommer att användas i min uppsats för att få en bättre förståelse för hur Lugn och Malmsten arbetar inom dessa teman. För att utforska sorg och melankoli i poesi kommer jag att använda Freuds essä ”The Mournig of Melancholia” (1917), Kristevas Black sun: depression and melancholia (1989) och även Karin Johannissons Melankoliska rum:om ångest, leda och sårbarhet i förfluten tid och nutid (2009), för att ge en tydlig bild av begreppet sorg och melankoli och de många aspekterna av det.

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[pt] Literatura apesar de tudo: duas visões sobre o romance melancólico de W.G. Sebald. A tese que aqui se apresenta parte da consideração de que a literatura do escritor alemão W.G. Sebald, ao tocar nos rastros da matéria ferida dos sobreviventes pós-Shoah, como também de tantas outras catástrofes da era capitalista burguesa, do colonialismo à dominação da natureza e degradação ambiental, emite um gesto de levante no sentido de que a literatura desponta como afirmação da vida, da memória redentora dos que foram engolidos pela barbárie, e no fomento de novos modos de adentrar o pretérito e retomar a cadeia de lutas daqueles que, escovando a história a contrapelo, intuíram um futuro justo e livre do inimigo histórico que insiste em perdurar. É a própria possibilidade de escrever e produzir literatura na, e apesar da, década de 1990, em um horizonte de desencantamento com os sonhos e as utopias que tanto marcaram o fracassado século XX, que o melancólico Sebald potencializa ao apresentar ao mundo seus quatro romances. Trata-se de uma melancolia criativa, insurgente e comprometida com as questões do seu tempo, que intuímos em reflexão cruzada especialmente com Didi-Huberman e Enzo Traverso, e que será demonstrada em uma leitura anatômica de dois romances: Os anéis de Saturno (1995) e Austerlitz (2001). / [en] Literature in Spite of All: two views on the melancholic romance of W.G. Sebald. This thesis takes as starting point the assumption that the literature of the German writer WG Sebald, touching the traces of the wounded material of post-Shoah survivors, as well as of so many other catastrophes of the bourgeois capitalist era, from colonialism to the domination of nature and environmental degradation, emits a gesture of uprising in the sense that literature emerges as an affirmation of life, of the redemptive memory of those who have been swallowed up by barbarism, and of fostering new ways of entering the past and returning to the chain of struggles of those who, brushing history against the grain, intuited a fair future and free from the historical enemy that insists on lasting. It is the very possibility of writing and producing literature during and despite the 1990s in a horizon of disenchantment with dreams and utopias that marked the failed twentieth century, that melancholy Sebald potentializes by presenting to the world his four novels. It is a creative melancholy, insurgent and committed to the issues of his time, which we intuit in a cross-reflection especially with Didi-Huberman and Enzo Traverso, and which will be demonstrated in an anatomical reading of two novels: The rings of Saturn (1995) and Austerlitz (2001).

<p>The essay deals with the idea of melancholia as an exclusively male feeling associated with geniality and eminence, as it is shown in the letters of three romantic men. These letters were written by the philosopher Benjamin Höijer, the poet P.D.A Atterbom, and the musician Adolf Fredrik Lindblad to their female friends Henriette von Rosenstein, Euphrosyne, and Malla Silfverstolpe. Romantic masculinity is a neglected topic that is in need of further research. An essential characteristic of romanticism is the appreciation of feeling. According to the traditional dualistic gender division though, women represented sensibility, while men instead were associated with reason. Melancholia can therefore be considered as a way for romantic men to develop a specifically male feeling of gravity and gloominess and keep it separated from a more light-hearted female sensibility. It also maintains the partition between a masculine public and a feminine private sphere, since melancholia can be seen as a more important public sensibility related to the whole of humanity, while female sorrow is restricted to personal circumstances. Though melancholia is often seen as a negative feeling, it is kept as a male privilege.</p>

The essay deals with the idea of melancholia as an exclusively male feeling associated with geniality and eminence, as it is shown in the letters of three romantic men. These letters were written by the philosopher Benjamin Höijer, the poet P.D.A Atterbom, and the musician Adolf Fredrik Lindblad to their female friends Henriette von Rosenstein, Euphrosyne, and Malla Silfverstolpe. Romantic masculinity is a neglected topic that is in need of further research. An essential characteristic of romanticism is the appreciation of feeling. According to the traditional dualistic gender division though, women represented sensibility, while men instead were associated with reason. Melancholia can therefore be considered as a way for romantic men to develop a specifically male feeling of gravity and gloominess and keep it separated from a more light-hearted female sensibility. It also maintains the partition between a masculine public and a feminine private sphere, since melancholia can be seen as a more important public sensibility related to the whole of humanity, while female sorrow is restricted to personal circumstances. Though melancholia is often seen as a negative feeling, it is kept as a male privilege.