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100	1	0	_aMeyer zum Wischen, Michael _eauthor
245	0	0	_aHumbling and melancholy: Acting out and passage to the act in The Humbling by Philip Roth
260			_c2022.
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520			_aSince a novel is not a patient, Franz Kaltenbeck advises readers not to search for signs of the author’s nor the character’s pathology in literary texts. Likewise, I would like to consider what Roth’s novel The Humbling teaches us about the importance of “acting out” and the passage to the act in melancholia. Roth depicts the decline of a stage actor, Axler, who suddenly loses his capacity to act, perform, and symbolically play out the traumas of his life, in particular his advancing age and vanishing sexual life. After a severe melancholic episode, he develops and acts out a sexual fantasy in order to combat a death drive. However, this attempt to work through one of his symptoms fails, and after a phase of acting out, the character commits suicide. Humbling aims to transform the subject into an objet petit a, the leftover resulting from symbolization.
690			_aacting out
690			_aSuicide
690			_apassage to the act
690			_aacting out
690			_aSuicide
690			_apassage to the act
786	0		_nSavoirs et clinique | o 29 | 2 | 2022-09-28 | p. 46-55 | 1634-3298
856	4	1	_uhttps://shs.cairn.info/journal-savoirs-et-cliniques-2021-2-page-46?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080
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