Listening to Trauma
- 392pagine
- 14 ore di lettura
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 Libri
Cathy Caruth è una professoressa di lettere umane il cui lavoro si addentra nei regni del trauma, della narrazione e della storia. Le sue analisi letterarie investigano come le nostre esperienze sono modellate dalle storie che raccontiamo e come queste narrazioni influenzano la nostra comprensione della verità e della finzione. L'approccio di Caruth spesso unisce la critica letteraria con la psicoanalisi e la filosofia per svelare le intricate connessioni tra linguaggio, memoria ed esperienza umana. La sua erudizione è essenziale per afferrare come la letteratura riflette e plasma i nostri traumi e le nostre realtà vissute più profonde.
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.