Acknowledgments Introduction: The Wound and the Voice1. 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 NotesIndex
The pathbreaking work that founded the field of trauma studies.
Cathy Caruth is the Frank H. T. Rhodes Professor of Humane Letters at Cornell University. She is the author of Trauma: Explorations in Memory; Literature in the Ashes of History; Empirical Truths and Critical Fictions: Locke, Wordsworth, Kant, Freud; and Listening to Trauma: Conversations with Leaders in the Theory and Treatment of Catastrophic Experience.
Unclaimed Experience is a splendid work, written with admirable
clarity, power, and economy. The book has importance for a number
of different fields: for psychoanalysis, for trauma theory or
theory of 'post-traumatic stress disorder, ' for literary study,
for literary theory, for cultural and historical studies, and for
ethical theory. Each chapter is a classic essay on its topic.--J.
Hillis Miller
Cathy Caruth has emerged as one of our most innovative scholars on
what we call trauma, and on our ways of perceiving and
conceptualizing that still mysterious phenomenon.--Robert Jay
Lifton, MD
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