Listening to Trauma
- 392pages
- 14 heures de lecture
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 Livres
Cathy Caruth est une professeure de lettres humaines dont le travail explore en profondeur les domaines du trauma, du récit et de l'histoire. Ses analyses littéraires étudient comment nos expériences sont façonnées par les histoires que nous racontons et comment ces récits influencent notre compréhension de la vérité et de la fiction. L'approche de Caruth fait souvent le pont entre la critique littéraire, la psychanalyse et la philosophie pour dévoiler les liens complexes entre le langage, la mémoire et l'expérience humaine. Son érudition est essentielle pour saisir comment la littérature reflète et façonne nos traumatismes et nos réalités vécues les plus profonds.
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.