TY - JOUR
TI - Impossible Emotions: The Ethics of Mourning and Melancholia
AU - Chatterjee, Tirna
TI - Impossible Emotions: The Ethics of Mourning and Melancholia
AB - 
	This paper looks at mourning and melancholia, and their ethical implications through the work of Sigmund Freud and mostly Jacques Derrida. The attempt here is to read through Derrida’s auto thanatological oeuvre through questions of fidelity, interminability, impossibility and ethics. In our perpetual struggle as scholars dealing with questions of meaning, existence, loss, life and death this paper tries to navigate the discursive traditions of looking at mourning and melancholia and what their radical potential is or can be where the mourning; melancholic; haunted; living subjects bear an impossible task unto the dead.
VL - 2021
IS - 12/2021
PY - 2021
SN - 2082-7806
C1 - 2543-408X
SP - 74
EP - 93
DO - 10.4467/2543408XZOP.21.004.14427
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/zoon-politikon/article/impossible-emotions-the-ethics-of-mourning-and-melancholia
KW - mourning
KW - melancholia
KW - death
KW - loss
KW - ethic