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 | #1759578 in Books |  Harvard University Press |  2008-11-28 |  2008-09-15 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.30 x.90 x6.20l,1.20 | File type: PDF | 272 pages

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||8 of 11 people found the following review helpful.| Helpful and Insightful|By Edward J. Brunner|A good deal has been written on melancholy, especially in recent years, but Flatley's book stands out as both a useful introductory text and an insightful application of psychoanalytic theory. At the center of his discussion is an astute reading of Henry James's The Turn of the Screw. As fine as this is, however, it is equaled by th| |Affective Mapping is one of those rare books that makes difficult theoretical propositions and counterintuitive ideas comprehensible without robbing them of any of their complexity and subtlety. (Douglas Crimp, author of Melancholia and Moralism)

The surprising claim of this book is that dwelling on loss is not necessarily depressing. Instead, Jonathan Flatley argues, embracing melancholy can be a road back to contact with others and can lead people to productively remap their relationship to the world around them. Flatley demonstrates that a seemingly disparate set of modernist writers and thinkers showed how aesthetic activity can give us the means to comprehend and change our relation to loss.

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