Stress: The Nature and History of Engineered Grief

by Robert Kugelmann

Stress names a kind of grief unique to the modern period, a grief perpetually unresolved, evoked by the rapid and relentless changes characteristic of modernity. Because our grief is always unresolved, the passion of mourning is perpetually productive. Stress is also a discourse, a mutation of experience by the external power of speech, a power that can devour what it articulates.

Yet, it was not until World War II, when the psychiatric...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275942716
• ISBN13: 9780275942717
• Release Date: September 1992
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"