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- Title
Freud, Faulkner, Caruth: Trauma and the Politics of Literary Form.
- Authors
Forter, Greg
- Abstract
The article discusses the trauma induced by patriarchal identity formation. According to the author, patients suffering from traumatic neuroses including shell-shocked war veterans and victims of motor-vehicle accidents often reports dream in which they forced to relieved the experiences that traumatized them. He added that Sigmund Freud proposes a replication of the gesture that give birth to pleasure ego. Furthermore, the theory of trauma is significant to the author's argument because the phenomena of traumatic repetition reveal for Freud a universal psychic tendency that opposes the work of pleasure.
- Subjects
TRAUMATOLOGY; PLEASURE; FREUD, Sigmund, 1856-1939; TRAUMATIC neuroses; EXPERIENCE; TRAUMATIC shock (Pathology); EXPERIENTIAL learning; VETERINARY traumatology; PATHOLOGICAL psychology
- Publication
Narrative, 2007, Vol 15, Issue 3, p259
- ISSN
1063-3685
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1353/nar.2007.0022