ENGLISH

Testimony: Crises of Witnessing in Literature, Psychoanalysis and History

By Shoshana Felman , Dori Laub MD

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
1992
ISBN
0415903920, 9780415903929
LCC
PN56.P92 F45 1991
Google Books ID
OpbJsbu2vm8C
Open Library ID
OL1552926M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
17 MB (18070119 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
149\149
Orientation
no
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

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.

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