Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: aging, difference, and subjectivity
  • Reading Freud: aging, castration, and inertia
  • The mirror stage of old age: Marcel Proust's The past recaptured
  • The look and the gaze: narcissism, aggression, and aging: Virginia Woolf's The years
  • Gender, generational identity, and aging: Eva Figes's Waking
  • Between mourning and melancholia: Roland Barthes's Camera lucida
  • The transitional object of the oldest age: Samuel Beckett's Malone dies
  • Youthfulness as a masquerade: denial, resistance, and desire
  • Phantasms of the aging body: the companion/empty/fragmenting body.