Losing Ourselves: A Freudian Approach to Political Theory as Mourning

• In Event: The Politics of the Soul

Brief Overview

In this paper, I argue that Sigmund Freud paves the way for conceiving of the good life as a process of continual mourning - mourning what we have lost, what we wished we had, and what we will inevitably lose in the future.

Author

• Rachel Wagner, University of Toronto