Not Working: Why We Have to Stop
- Submitting institution
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Goldsmiths' College
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 2730
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Granta
- ISBN
- 9781783782062
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- January
- Year of publication
- 2019
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- The book weaves strands of research in my two professional lives as an academic and clinical psychoanalyst. Drawing on currents in cultural history, literary criticism and philosophy that have long been at the centre of my academic research, as well as on psychoanalytic theory and practice, it explores different dimensions of inertia through a typology of inactivity informed by Freud and Walter Benjamin. This typology was the basis for four long chapters, each written over the course of a year, ranging across literature and cultural theory, and each culminating in a biographical-critical essay on a major artist or writer.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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