A Voluntary End of Earth. Melancholia and Jean Améry

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  • Sebastian Thede Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich

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https://doi.org/10.5283/copas.245

Keywords:

Jean Améry, Lars von Trier, Suicide, Melancholia

Abstract

This essay interrogates the semantics of finality in Lars von Trier’s Melancholia “(2011), in the light of Austrian theorist Jean Améry’s 1976 study On Suicide. A Discourse on Voluntary Death“. I suggest an apsychological reading of Melancholia“, to unwrap its narrative and philosophical reflections on a desire for the end of earth.

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Thede, Sebastian. “A Voluntary End of Earth. Melancholia and Jean Améry”. Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies, vol. 16, no. 2, Nov. 2015, doi:10.5283/copas.245.

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Vol. 16 No. 2 (2015): The End as Enjambment

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