Description
Book SynopsisContributions by: Georges Bataille, Harold Bloom, Laura Brown, Cathy Caruth, Kai Erikson, Shoshana Felman, Henry Krystal, Claude Lanzmann, Dori Laub, Kevin Newmark, Onno van der Hart, and Bessel van der Kolk. Interviews with: Robert Jay Lifton, Gregg Bordowitz, Douglas Crimp, and Laura Pinsky
Trade Review"An unusually informative, as well as sensitive, series of essays with important ramifications for interdisciplinary theory and both social and literary thought. Caruth and her contributors work at the very intersection of contemporary life and scholarship."--Geoffrey Hartman, Yale University "These essays offer fresh approaches on the subject of trauma from both a psychoanalytic and contemporary theoretical point of view. The combination of theoretical articles about trauma with interviews about its ongoing effects is a particular strength--and a particularly appropriate approach when the topic itself is silence or testimony about trauma. The book will be of great interest to those in the psychoanalytic community interested in this kind of interdisciplinary work."--Alan Bass, Ph.D., Psychoanalyst
Table of ContentsPreface
Part I: Trauma and Experience
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Education and Crisis, or the Vicissitudes of Teaching
Chapter 3. Truth and Testimony: The Process and the Struggle
Chapter 4. Trauma and Aging: A Thirty-Year Follow-Up
Chapter 5. Not Outside the Range: One Feminist Perspective on Psychic Trauma
Chapter 6. Freud: Frontier Concepts, Jewishness, and Interpretation
Chapter 7. An Interview with Robert Jay Lifton
Part II: Recapturing the Past
Chapter 8. Introduction
Chapter 9. The Intrusive Past: The Flexibility of Memory and the Engraving of Trauma
Chapter 10. Notes on Trauma and Community
Chapter 11. The Obscenity of Understanding: An Evening With Claude Lanzmann
Chapter 12. Concerning the Accounts Given by the Residents of Hiroshima
Chapter 13. Traumatic Poetry: Charles Baudelaire and the Shock of Laughter
Chapter 14. "The AIDS Crisis is Not Over": A Conversation with Gregg Bordowitz, Douglass Crimp, and Laura Pinsky
Contributors
