Malicious Objects, Anger Management, and the Question of Modern Literature

Epilogue

This chapter discusses the depiction of anger caused by inanimate objects in literature. It suggests that rage and other emotional eruptions must be considered as inefficient and useless conversions of energy because the angry individual does not follow the energetic imperative, for energy is squandered instead of being exploited. This chapter also argues that it is in slapstick routines, phantasms, or pathological emotional outbursts that malicious objects crop up, disobeying the laws of presence and absence, the human and the machine, the animate and inanimate.