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Unclaimed experience : trauma, narrative, and history
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ISBN: 0801852471 9780801852473 0801852463 Year: 1996 Publisher: Baltimore (Md.) : Johns Hopkins university press,

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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 notion of trauma, she contends, we come to a new understanding that permits history to arise where immediate understanding is impossible. In her wide-ranging discussion, Caruth engages Freud's theory of trauma as outlined in Moses and Monotheism and Beyond the Pleasure Principle; the notion of reference and the figure of the falling body in de Man, Kleist, and Kant; the narratives of personal catastrophe in Hiroshima mon amour; and the traumatic address in Lecompte's reinterpretation of Freud's narrative of the dream of the burning child.

Trauma : explorations in memory
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ISBN: 080185007X 9780801850073 0801850096 Year: 1995 Publisher: Baltimore London : Johns Hopkins University Press,

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Because traumatic events are unbearable in their horror and intensity, they often exist as memories that are not immediately recognisable 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. This work offers an analysis of what literature and the new approaches of a variety of clinical and theoretical disciplines bring to the understanding of traumatic experience. The combination of essays and interviews is intended to be of interest to analysts and critics concerned with the notion of trauma and the problem of interpretation and, more generally, to those interested in current discussions of subjects such as child abuse, AIDS and the effects of historical atrocities such as the Holocaust.


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Unclaimed Experience : trauma, narrative, and history
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ISBN: 9781421421650 9781421421667 1421421666 1421421658 Year: 2016 Publisher: Baltimore (Md.) : Johns Hopkins University Press,

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"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 notion of trauma, she contends, we come to a new understanding that permits history to arise where immediate understanding may not. Caruth explores the ways in which the texts of psychoanalysis, literature, and literary theory both speak about and speak through the profound story of traumatic experience. Rather than straightforwardly describing actual case studies of trauma survivors, or attempting to elucidate directly the psychiatry of trauma, she examines the complex ways that knowing and not knowing are entangled in the language of trauma and in the stories associated with it. Caruth's wide-ranging discussion touches on Freud's theory of trauma as outlined in Moses and Monotheism and Beyond the Pleasure Principle. She traces the notion of reference and the figure of the falling body in de Man, Kleist, and Kant; the narratives of personal catastrophe in Hiroshima mon amour; and the traumatic address in Lecompte's reinterpretation of Freud's narrative of the dream of the burning child. In this twentieth-anniversary edition of her now classic text, a substantial new afterword addresses major questions and controversies surrounding trauma theory that have arisen over the past two decades. Caruth offers innovative insights into the inherent connection between individual and collective trauma, on the importance of the political and ethical dimensions of the theory of trauma, and on the crucial place of literature in the theoretical articulation of the very concept of trauma. Her afterword serves as a decisive intervention in the ongoing discussions in and about the field"--


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Literature in the ashes of history
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ISBN: 9781421411552 9781421411545 1421411547 1421411555 Year: 2013 Publisher: Baltimore The Johns Hopkins University Press

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"Cathy Caruth juxtaposes the writings of psychoanalysts, literary and political theorists, and literary authors who write in a century faced by a new kind of history, one that is made up of events that seem to undo, rather than produce, their own remembrance. At the heart of each chapter is the enigma of a history that, in its very unfolding, seems to be slipping away before our grasp. What does it mean for history to disappear? And what does it mean to speak of a history that disappears? These questions, Caruth suggests, lie at the center of the psychoanalytic texts that frame this book, as well as the haunting stories and theoretical arguments that resonate with each other in profound and surprising ways. In the writings of Honor e de Balzac, Hannah Arendt, Ariel Dorfman, Wilhelm Jensen, Sigmund Freud, and Jacques Derrida, we encounter, across different stakes and different languages, a variety of narratives that bear witness not simply to the past but also to the pasts we have not known and that repeatedly return us to a future that remains beyond imagination. These stories of trauma cannot be limited to the catastrophes they name, and the theory of catastrophic history may ultimately be written in a language that already lingers in a time that comes to us from the other side of the disaster."--Publisher's description.

Empirical truths and critical fictions
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ISBN: 0801896487 9780801896484 0801892694 0801840805 Year: 2009 Publisher: Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press

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Caruth thus reveals, in each of these authors, a tension between the abstraction of a conceptual language freed from reference and the compelling referential resistance of particular stories to abstraction.


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Listening to trauma : conversations with leaders in the theory and treatment of catastrophic experience
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ISBN: 1421414457 9781421414454 1421414449 9781421414447 Year: 2014 Publisher: Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins University Press,

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Empirical truths and critical fictions : Locke, Wordsworth, Kant, Freud.
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ISBN: 9780801892691 Year: 2009 Publisher: Baltimore The Johns Hopkins University Press

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Critical encounters: reference and responsibility in deconstructive writing
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ISBN: 081352086X 0813520851 Year: 1995 Publisher: New Brunswick, N.J. Rutgers University Press

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L'expérience inappropriable : le trauma, le récit et l'histoire
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ISBN: 9791037029737 9791037029737 Year: 2023 Publisher: Paris: Hermann éditeurs des sciences et des arts,

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Paru en anglais en 1996, ce livre a profondément marqué les recherches en sciences humaines, révélant les impacts que les traumatismes peuvent avoir sur la culture.« Caruth est l'un des chercheurs les plus novateurs sur ce que nous appelons le traumatisme, et sur nos façons de percevoir et de conceptualiser ce phénomène encore mystérieux. » — Robert Jay LiftonCe livre emblématique est « le premier à réaliser l'importance de la théorie du traumatisme pour les sciences humaines. Explorant le traumatisme comme un modèle pour penser les relations entre l'histoire et l'expérience, ses livres ont fait d'elle un leader dans ce domaine qu'elle a en partie créé. »— Jonathan Culler

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Critical encounters : reference and responsibility in deconstructive writing
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ISBN: 0813520886 Year: 1995 Publisher: New Brunswick Rutgers university press

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