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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Main Author: Caruth, Cathy 1955-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: 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.