Category: Volume 11 – Number 2 – January 2001
Notices
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Volume 11, Number 2 January, 2001 Every issue of Postmodern Culturecarries notices of events, calls for papers, and other announcements, free of charge. Advertisements will also be published on an exchange basis. If you respond to one of the ads or announcements below, please mention that you saw the notice in PMC. […]
Trauma and the Material Signifier
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Linda Belau Department of English George Washington University lbelau@gwu.edu Perhaps the most mysterious and the most devastating dimension of trauma is its apparent power to confound ordinary forms of understanding. Trauma seems to belong to another world, beyond the limits of our understanding. Indeed, this is precisely the point of interest for the deconstructive […]
The Psychical Nature of Trauma: Freud’s Dora, The Young Homosexual Woman, and the Fort! Da! Paradigm
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Ellie Ragland English Department University of Missouri ellie.ragland@prodigy.net In recent literary studies of trauma, many critics postulate trauma as itself a limit on representation. In Shoshana Felman’s words, working with trauma in the literary classroom, whether through fiction, historical fiction, or poetry, has the pedagogical effect of “break[ing] the very framework of the class” […]
An Interview with Jean Laplanche
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Cathy Caruth Department of Comparative Literature Emory University ccaruth@emory.edu Jean Laplanche has long been recognized as a leading French thinker and psychoanalyst. His pioneering work on Freud’s early writing first revealed the temporal structure of trauma in Freud and its significance for Freud’s notion of sexuality. In his later work, Laplanche has elaborated on […]
From Haunting to Trauma: Nietzsche’s Active Forgetting and Blanchot’s Writing of the Disaster
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Petar Ramadanovic Department of English University of New Hampshire petarr@cisunix.unh.edu Part I: Active Forgetting Introduction In the second of his untimely meditations, Nietzsche suggests that a cow lives without boredom and pain, because it does not remember.1 Because it has no past, the cow is happy. But the animal cannot confirm its happiness precisely […]
“Das Vergangene wird gewußt, das Gewußte [aber] wird erzählt”: Trauma, Forgetting, and Narrative in F.W.J. Schelling’s Die Weltalter
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David Farrell Krell Department of Philosophy DePaul University dkrell@wppost.depaul.edu Here is the primal source of bitterness intrinsic in all life. Indeed, there must be bitterness. It must irrupt immediately, as soon life is no longer sweetened. For love itself is compelled toward hate. In hate, the tranquil, gentle spirit can achieve no effects, but […]
Introduction: Trauma and Crisis
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Petar Ramadanovic Department of English University of New Hampshire petarr@cisunix.unh.edu The development of theory in America is marked by what has come to be known in the last ten years as trauma, and our purpose in this introduction is to point to that, and to open our collection with and to the question: What […]