Listening to Trauma
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- 14 hodin čtení
Features interviews with a diverse group of leaders in the theorization of, and response to, traumatic experience in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Cathy Caruth Knihy
Cathy Caruth je profesorkou humanitních věd, jejíž práce se hluboce zabývá traumatem, narativem a historií. Její literární analýzy zkoumají, jak jsou naše zkušenosti utvářeny příběhy, které si vyprávíme, a jak tyto příběhy ovlivňují naše vnímání pravdy a fikce. Caruthin přístup často propojuje literární kritiku s psychoanalýzou a filozofií, aby odhalila složité vztahy mezi jazykem, pamětí a lidským prožíváním. Její dílo je klíčové pro pochopení, jak literatura reflektuje a formuje naše nejhlubší traumata a zkušenosti.
The afterword provides a critical perspective on current debates within the field, offering insights that contribute significantly to the discourse. It addresses key issues and challenges, positioning itself as a vital commentary that encourages further exploration and dialogue among scholars and practitioners.
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.
The book explores the tension between traditional English empiricism, particularly Locke's view of self-understanding through observation, and the critiques posed by Romantic poets and German philosophers. Cathy Caruth reinterprets Locke's work as a narrative where "experience" holds a complex and uncanny significance. She examines how Wordsworth, Kant, and Freud engage with this narrative, not merely as opponents of empiricism but as grappling with the intricate relationship between language and experience in their own writings.