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Identification, atonement and the moral psychology of violation : on Patricio Guzman's Nostalgia for the Light
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Norrie, Alan W. (2019) Identification, atonement and the moral psychology of violation : on Patricio Guzman's Nostalgia for the Light. Journal of Critical Realism, 18 (4). pp. 383-401. doi:10.1080/14767430.2019.1656922
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/14767430.2019.1656922
Abstract
This essay considers the nature of mourning and melancholia in light of Patrizio Guzman’s film, Nostalgia for the Light. It examines the position of three women dealing with the aftermath of Pinochet’s dictatorship in Chile, in which their close family members were disappeared and murdered. It views their experiences through the lens of a moral psychology that is at once ethical and psychoanalytical. A key concept in both fields is loving identification, and this is linked to a desire to atone, in the original meaning of making whole or being ‘at one’ with another. It is argued that such a conception lies at the core of a moral psychology of guilt, and the analysis is then developed into an understanding of mourning and melancholia. The women in the film are understood as involved in a dual struggle: to mourn their lost loved ones, and to resist efforts to make them see themselves in melancholic terms.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BJ Ethics P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN0080 Criticism |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Law | ||||||||
| SWORD Depositor: | Library Publications Router | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Identification (psychology), Nostalgia for the Light , Guzman, Patricio -- History and criticism, Moral development, Judgment (Ethics), Guilt, Loss (Psychology) in literature, Grief in literature | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Critical Realism | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Maney Publishing | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 1476-7430 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | 2019 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 18 | ||||||||
| Number: | 4 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 383-401 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1080/14767430.2019.1656922 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Publisher Statement: | “This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Critical Realism on 29/08/2019, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/14767430.2019.1656922 | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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