Age rage and going gently : stories of the senescent subject in twentieth-century French writing / Oliver Davis.
"This wide-ranging study looks at how the ageing process has alternately been figured in and excluded from twentieth-century French literature, philosophy and psychoanalysis. It espouses a critical interdisciplinarity and calls into question the assumptions underlying much research into ageing...
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Amsterdam ; New York :
Rodopi,
2006.
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| Series: | Faux titre ;
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Table of Contents:
- Age Rage and Going Gently; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter One Gerontology against ontology in Beauvoir's La Vieillesse; Chapter Two Andr©♭ Gide's split senescent subject; Chapter Three Violette Leduc and the problem with psychoanalysis; Chapter Four Towards a psychoanalytic approach to senescent subjectivity; Chapter Five Beauvoir as biographer and autobiographer of the ageing subject; Chapter Six Herv©♭ Guibert's intergenerational photo-text; Conclusion; Appendix 1 Interview with Marianne Ahrne, director of Promenade Au Pays De La Vieillesse (12 May 2001, Stockholm); Index.