Unclaimed Experience Trauma, Narrative, and History

Name: Unclaimed Experience Trauma, Narrative, and History
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ISBN: 9780801852473

ISBN-10: 0801852471

ISBN-13: 9780801852473

Edition: 1996

Authors: Cathy Caruth

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"If Freud turns to literature to describe traumatic experience, it is because literature, like psychoanalysis, is interested in the complex relation between knowing and not knowing, and it is at this specific point at which knowing and not knowing intersect that the psychoanalytic theory of traumatic experience and the language of literature meet."--from the Introduction 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 and reference. Through the…

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List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 6/17/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 168
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English



Acknowledgments


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)


Notes


Index