Testimony: Crises of Witnessing in Literature, Psychoanalysis, and HistoryTaylor & Francis, 1992 - 294 Seiten 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. |
Inhalt
| 1 | |
| 57 | |
| 75 | |
Camus The Plague or A Monument to Witnessing | 93 |
Paul de Man and the Fall to Silence | 120 |
Camus The Fall or the Betrayal of the Witness | 165 |
Claude Lanzmanns Shoah | 204 |
Index | 284 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
accident Albert Camus articulate Auschwitz bear witness become Benjamin black milk Camus Celan Chelmno Claude Lanzmann confession contemporary crisis crucial cultural dead dream effect Elie Wiesel event experience extermination fact Fall film French Freud gas vans German ghetto happened historian Holocaust Holocaust Testimonies human implications impossibility inside Interview Jewish Jews journalistic journey Karski knowledge language Lanzmann Le Soir listener literally literary literature living Mallarmé Man's mean memory Moby-Dick narrative narrator Nazi occurrence once one's paradoxically past Paul Paul Celan philosophical Plague poem poetic poetry political precisely Primo Levi Psychoanalysis purloined Purloined Letter question radical Rambert reality referential resistance Rieux Rousseau Sartre says scene Second World War Shoah SHOSHANA FELMAN significance silence simply singing Soir song speak speech Srebnik story suggest suicide survival survivor talk tell testify tion translation trauma Treblinka truth turn understand verse victims voice words writing
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 57 - By extension, the listener to trauma comes to be a participant and a coowner of the traumatic event: through his very listening, he comes to partially experience trauma in himself.
Seite 96 - By the same token, the writer's function is not without arduous duties. By definition, he cannot serve today those who make history; he must serve those who are subject to it. Otherwise he is alone and deprived of his art. All the armies of tyranny with their millions of men cannot people his solitude —even, and especially, if he is willing to fall into step with them. But the silence of an unknown prisoner subjected to humiliations at the other end of the world is enough...
Seite 31 - He calls out more sweetly play death death is a master from Germany he calls out more darkly now stroke your strings then as smoke you will rise into air then a grave you will have in the clouds there one lies unconfined...
Seite 57 - ... yet, not been taken cognizance of. The emergence of the narrative which is being listened to — and heard — is, therefore, the process and the place wherein the cognizance, the "knowing" of the event is given birth to.
Seite 159 - They disarticulate, they undo the original, they reveal that the original was always already disarticulated. They reveal that their failure, which seems to be due to the fact that they are secondary in relation to the original, reveals an essential failure, an essential disarticulation which was already there in the original. They kill the original, by discovering that the original was already dead.
Seite 68 - The absence of an empathic listener, or more radically, the absence of an addressable other, an other who can hear the anguish of one's memories and thus affirm and recognize their realness, annihilates the story.
Seite 100 - In any case the narrator . . . would have little claim to competence for a task like this, had not chance put him in the way of gathering much information, and had he not been, by the force of things, closely involved in all that he proposes to narrate. This is his justification for playing the part of the historian.
Seite 136 - On the second day, a sail drew near, nearer, and picked me up at last. It was the deviouscruising Rachel, that in her retracing search after her missing children, only found another orphan.
Seite 136 - Oh, lonely death on lonely life! Oh, now I feel my topmost greatness lies in my topmost grief. Ho, ho! from all your furthest bounds, pour ye now in, ye bold billows of my whole foregone life, and top this one piled comber of my death!