
Mourning and Melancholia
Why Theory
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The Lost Cause of the Confederacy
There is something to mourn in even the lost cause of the confederacy. I'm almost tempted to say lost cause there, you know, is already psychoanalytic. And we havet even dasding, in a way, it's right there in e, relationship to melancholy is hi object of the drive. So i kind of eject the move that happened in the a nineties and you know, early two thousand sn daryda and butler,. where they basically melancholized mourning, they made mourning into a general structure of subjectivity.
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