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It is easy to get into a melancholic state of mind, in which a sense of indefinable loss predominates. On a certain day, at the age of 57, I finished reading Gabriella Safran’s (2010) biography of An-sky, who had died at 57, and picked up W. G. Sebald’s (2001) novel, Austerlitz. Sebald too died at the age of 57. I am not superstitious, but this coincidence was unnerving.
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Frosh, S. (2013). Conclusion. In: Hauntings: Psychoanalysis and Ghostly Transmissions. Studies in the Psychosocial. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137031259_8
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