Unclaimed Experience : Trauma, Narrative and History /

"In Unclaimed Experience, Cathy Caruth proposes that in the widespread and bewildering experience of trauma in our century--both in its occurrence and in our attempt to understand it--we can recognize the possibility of a history no longer based on simple models of straightforward experience an...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Caruth, Cathy, 1955- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Baltimore, MD : The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Bellettrie.
Trauma's (psychologie)
Psychic trauma in literature.
Literature, Modern.
Literature and society.
Disasters in literature.
Society in literature.
PSYCHOLOGY > Movements > Psychoanalysis.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Semiotics & Theory.
Litterature et societe.
Catastrophes dans la litterature.
Traumatisme psychique dans la litterature.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Introduction: the wound and the voice
  • Unclaimed experience: trauma and the possibility of history (Freud, Moses and Monotheism)
  • Literature and the enactment of memory (Duras, Resnais, Hiroshima mon amour)
  • Traumatic departures: survival and history in Freud (Beyond the Pleasure Principle, Moses and Monotheism)
  • The falling body and the impact of reference (de Man, Kant, Kleist)
  • Traumatic awakenings (Freud, Lacan, and the ethics of memory)
  • Afterword: addressing life: the literary voice in the theory of trauma.

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