Please join the Affect and the Emotions Workshop, in-person, on
Monday, May 2nd
when
Ben Jeffery
Teaching Fellow in the Social Sciences
presents the paper:
Grief is a Troubled Medium: Reading Housekeeping through Loewald
There is a passage in Marilynne Robinson’s novel Housekeeping(1980) where the narrator describes the effect of a sudden bereavement on an Idaho family. She – the narrator – tells us that the event “had troubled the very medium of their lives. Time and air and sunlight bore wave and wave of shock…” I propose to read the passage through the lens of Hans Loewald’s psychoanalytic work, with the aim of showing how it illustrates an idea he presents about the psychological constitution of external reality.
Discussant:
Amy Levine
PhD Candidate; Department of Philosophy and Committee on Social Thought
This event will take place in
Wieboldt Hall, Room 408
4:30-6:00pm CT
Materials to be discussed are available on our website.
