Testimony: Crises of Witnessing in Literature, Psychoanalysis and History / Edition 1

Testimony: Crises of Witnessing in Literature, Psychoanalysis and History / Edition 1

by Shoshana Felman, Dori Laub
ISBN-10:
0415903920
ISBN-13:
9780415903929
Pub. Date:
12/13/1991
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis
ISBN-10:
0415903920
ISBN-13:
9780415903929
Pub. Date:
12/13/1991
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis
Testimony: Crises of Witnessing in Literature, Psychoanalysis and History / Edition 1

Testimony: Crises of Witnessing in Literature, Psychoanalysis and History / Edition 1

by Shoshana Felman, Dori Laub
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Overview

In this unique collection, Yale literary critic Shoshana Felman and psychoanalyst Dori Laub examine the nature and function of memory and the act of witnessing, both in their general relation to the acts of writing and reading, and in their particular relation to the Holocaust. Moving from the literary to the visual, from the artistic to the autobiographical, and from the psychoanalytic to the historical, the book defines for the first time the trauma of the Holocaust as a radical crisis of witnessing "the unprecedented historical occurrence of...an event eliminating its own witness." Through the alternation of a literary and clinical perspective, the authors focus on the henceforth modified relation between knowledge and event, literature and evidence, speech and survival, witnessing and ethics.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780415903929
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 12/13/1991
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 312
Product dimensions: 6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Shoshana Felman is the Thomas E. Donnelly Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Yale University. Dori Laub is a psychiatrist engaged in the treatment of trauma survivors and is cofounder of the Holocaust Survivors' Film Project and of the Video Archives for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale University.

Table of Contents

1: Education and Crisis, Or the Vicissitudes of Teaching; 2: Bearing Witness or the Vicissitudes of Listening; 3: An Event Without a Witness: Truth, Testimony and Survival; 4: Camus' The Plague, or a Monument to Witnessing; 5: After the Apocalypse: Paul de Man and the Fall to Silence; 6: The Betrayal of the Witness: Camus' The Fall; 7: The Return of the Voice Claude Lanzmann's Shoah
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