Walter Benjamin and History

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• Freud, who was to observe the righteous grandiosity of the melancholic's self-lacerations, was thus led to draw the conceptual link between melancholia and a certain narcissism: the preoccupation with an originary loss('as such')logically preceding the loss of any determinate object could function equally as a pre-emptive denial of loss which would mask the real inaccessibility of its object by determing it in advance as lost -- thus negatively appropriable in its very absence. The melanchonic attachment to 'unknown loss' would in this way function apotropaically as a defence against the fact that the object 'lost' was in fact never mine for the having. Melancholia would thus be a way of staging a dispossession of that which was never one's own to lose in the first place -- and thus, preci... (查看原文)

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