Listening to Trauma
- 392 páginas
- 14 horas de lectura
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 Libros
Cathy Caruth es una profesora de letras humanas cuya obra profundiza en los ámbitos del trauma, la narrativa y la historia. Sus análisis literarios investigan cómo nuestras experiencias son moldeadas por las historias que contamos y cómo estas narrativas influyen en nuestra comprensión de la verdad y la ficción. El enfoque de Caruth a menudo une la crítica literaria con el psicoanálisis y la filosofía para desentrañar las intrincadas conexiones entre el lenguaje, la memoria y la experiencia humana. Su erudición es esencial para comprender cómo la literatura refleja y da forma a nuestros traumas y realidades vividas más profundos.
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.