Journal article
The Chronolibidinal World of Dying for Time
Journal of modern literature, v 37(4), pp 186-194
01 Jul 2014
Abstract
Desire, as Martin Hägglund claims inDying For Time, has been erringly conceived in philosophical, literary, and psychoanalytic traditions as testifying to a fundamental lack of being. In response, Hägglund develops the notion of chronolibido, a theory that posits the constitutive difference of desire as testifying to temporal finitude and mortality as the object of desire. In the rubric of chronolibido, the desire for immortality dissimulates a preceding desire for survival. This review takes up Hägglund's theory of desire and examines the implications of chronolibido for reading modernist literature.
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- Title
- The Chronolibidinal World of Dying for Time
- Creators
- Jennifer Yusin - Drexel University
- Publication Details
- Journal of modern literature, v 37(4), pp 186-194
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- English and Philosophy
- Other Identifier
- 991021866904704721