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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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2016.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The Wound and the Voice
- 1. Unclaimed Experience: Trauma and the Possibility of History (Freud, Moses and Monotheism)
- 2. Literature and the Enactment of Memory (Duras, Resnais, Hiroshima mon amour)
- 3. Traumatic Departures: Survival and History in Freud (Beyond the Pleasure Principle, Moses and Monotheism)
- 4. The Falling Body and the Impact of Reference (de Man, Kant, Kleist)
- 5. Traumatic Awakenings (Freud, Lacan, and the Ethics of Memory)
- Afterword: Addressing Life: The Literary Voice in the Theory of Trauma
- Notes
- Index.