Trauma Explorations in Memory

Name: Trauma Explorations in Memory
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ISBN: 9780801850073

ISBN-10: 080185007X

ISBN-13: 9780801850073

Edition: 1995

Authors: Cathy Caruth

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Because traumatic events are unbearable in their horror and intensity, they often exist as memories that are not immediately recognizable as truth. Such experiences are best understood not only through the straightforward acquisition of facts but through a process of discovering where and why conscious understanding and memory fail. Literature, according to Cathy Caruth and others, opens a window on traumatic experience because it teaches readers to listen to what can be told only in indirect and surprising ways. Sociology, film, and political activism can also provide new ways of thinking about and responding to the experience of trauma. In Trauma and Memory, a distinguished group of…

Book details

List price: $37.00
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 6/1/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.95" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 1.100



Preface



Trauma and Experience


Introduction



Education and Crisis, or the Vicissitudes of Teaching



Truth and Testimony: The Process and the Struggle



Trauma and Aging: A Thirty-Year Follow-Up



Not Outside the Range: One Feminist Perspective on Psychic Trauma



Freud: Frontier Concepts, Jewishness, and Interpretation



An Interview with Robert Jay Lifton




Recapturing the Past


Introduction



The Intrusive Past: The Flexibility of Memory and the Engraving of Trauma



Notes on Trauma and Community



The Obscenity of Understanding: An Evening with Claude Lanzmann



Concerning the Accounts Given by the Residents of Hiroshima



Traumatic Poetry: Charles Baudelaire and the Shock of Laughter



"The AIDS Crisis Is Not Over": A Conversation with Gregg Bordowitz, Douglas Crimp, and Laura Pinsky



Contributors