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• W40984427 abstract "IN HIS ESSAY ON the uncanny, Freud mentions briefly what he calls humorous saying: is (399). He goes on to connect this to homesickness for the mother's womb, which manifests itself in the uncanniness of the female genitalia. In this essay I want to look past the depth of Freud's reading of this expression, and see its obvious meaning--the nostalgia of falling in love. Nostalgia comes from the Greek nostos for and algia for pain. The OED defines it as a form of melancholia caused by prolonged absence from one's home or country or severe I see another interpretation of the etymology of this word, however, which implies that the nostalgia or sickness comes from return home, return to home that is changed from the passing of time--that is no longer the ideal home of memory. Love, then, opens the doors of memory, of childhood familiarities and happiness; hence love accesses the desire to go back to past that, because closed by time, resides in the rosy light of lost paradise. Love leads to homesickness because its ideal quality illuminates the impossibility of other ideals, those tied to the belongingness of the past--the childhood haunts, the home country. Yet another way I read this expression turns on understanding the amorous attraction of one who is homeless--falling in love with the pathologically homesick. Love as homesickness describes the erotic quality of the outsider, the attraction of the self-exiled. Taking this expression at face value then, keeping to the surface of its meaning, we step into the realm where love partakes of the outside, where love describes desire to be with, or to be oneself, an outsider. And the home stands as an important trope for many love narratives, where homesickness becomes both literal and figural with the fugitive, melancholy wayfarer, who is both loved and loves under the sign of his homesickness. The legacy of Byronism in fiction includes linked concepts of existence and love that are based upon an erotics of homesickness. The question presses: Why does the mark of Cain become mark of the beloved? The figure of the tortured hero created by Byron stands as an early articulation for theories central to Modernism such as Georges Lukac's theory of the transcendentally homeless--the lack of and need for home wherein belief in true and fixed meaning can be housed, such as God or Nature. Byron's figure of the traveler stands also as prototype for such influential theories of subjectivity as the world-weary, world-traveled, sophisticated Aesthete of Oscar Wilde and the philosophers of the late Victorian journal The Yellow Book, whose jaded palates seek ever-newer scenes to whet their appetites. Related also to the flaneur in Proust, Baudelaire, and Benjamin, Childe Harold's voyages mark him as connoisseur of human nature, an idler whose work is to brood. Furthermore, the Byronic hero appears again and again in contemporary fiction and especially in women's mass-market romance as what I have referred to elsewhere as the dangerous lover--a hero who is attractive because of his outsider status, because of his magnetic melancholy, and his way of leading his lover into the dangers of his wasted subjectivity. In his poetical voyage around the world, Byron's quintessential Byronic hero, Childe Harold, surveys battles, historical sites, the haunts and birthplaces of writers and philosophers. The Byronic figure brings together the tropes of love and homesickness, eroticizing the voyager so important to the imagination of Western culture, linking him to tradition that stretches back to Odysseus as the lost traveler, looking for his homeland, and the Flying Dutchman, traveling the seas to find woman who can redeem him. The mythic liebestod lover, Shakespeare's Romeo, whose name means roamer, or wanderer, marks this tie between love and travel. Romeo and Juliet, riddled with metaphors of pilgrimage and sea voyaging, pictures love-sickness leading to melancholy end. …" @default.
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• W40984427 title "Love as Homesickness: Longing for a Transcendental Home in Byron and the Dangerous Lover Narrative" @default.
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