Simon Wortham is Professor of Critical Humanities at Kingston University London. His recent books include Resistance and Psychoanalysis: Impossible Divisions (2017), Hope: The Politics of Optimism (2019), Reading Robert Walser: Criticism, Creativity, Correspondence (2025), and Robert Walser and the Politics of Neglect (2025).
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1. Manic “Change Round” In Sigmund Freud’s “Mourning and Melancholia,” the melancholic is in want of an object, never knowing exactly what they may have lost. Melancholy transforms the object-loss of mourning into
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