Unselfing : Global French Literature at the Limits of Consciousness /

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"Altered states of consciousness--including experiences of deprivation, pain, hallucination, fear, desire, alienation, and spiritual transcendence--can transform the ordinary experience of selfhood. Unselfing explores the nature of disruptive self-experiences and the different shapes they have...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Hulstyn, Michaela (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2022]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
États modifies de conscience dans la litterature.
Moi (Psychologie) dans la litterature.
Litterature française > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Altered states of consciousness in literature.
Self in literature.
French literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Literary criticism.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Toward a Cognitive-Phenomenological Approach to the Self
  • What Is Unselfing?
  • Unselfing as Disruption: Self-Knowledge and Pain in Paul Valéry and Charlotte Delbo
  • Unselfing as Mutation: Hallucination and the Remains in Henri Michaux and Yolande Mukagasana
  • Unselfing as Fragmentation: Languages of Alterity in Abdelkebir Khatibi and Hélène Cixous
  • Unselfing as Destruction: Decreation and Inner Experience in Simone Weil and Georges Bataille
  • Epilogue: Unselfing and Coming Home.

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