Crafting Flesh, Crafting the Self: Violence and Identity in Early Nineteenth-century German LiteratureThis book analyzes wounded human bodies in early nineteenth-century German literature and traces their connection to changing philosophical models of the self. It argues that literary representations and metaphors of violence against the body not only offer powerful physical referents for a concept of self, but that they also define violence as an integral component of the self. |
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Freud defines trauma within the context of this model as “ any excitations from
outside which are powerful enough to break ... 18 Traumatic events are thus
intense external stimuli that penetrate the individual ' s protective psychological
barrier .
Freud defines trauma within the context of this model as “ any excitations from
outside which are powerful enough to break ... 18 Traumatic events are thus
intense external stimuli that penetrate the individual ' s protective psychological
barrier .
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In Freudian terms , original trauma is more fundamental than the self - destructive
death drive or the erotic sexual drive that it produces . Both drives arise from an
original trauma , and the self that negotiates between these drives and the ...
In Freudian terms , original trauma is more fundamental than the self - destructive
death drive or the erotic sexual drive that it produces . Both drives arise from an
original trauma , and the self that negotiates between these drives and the ...
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self - annihilation give way to tales of trauma and violence such as Brentano ' s “
The Story of good Kasper and beautiful Annerl ” ( Geschichte vom braven
Kasperl und dem schönen Annerl ) ( 1818 ) , where a girl ' s childhood trauma
from an ...
self - annihilation give way to tales of trauma and violence such as Brentano ' s “
The Story of good Kasper and beautiful Annerl ” ( Geschichte vom braven
Kasperl und dem schönen Annerl ) ( 1818 ) , where a girl ' s childhood trauma
from an ...
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Inhalt
Acknowledgments | 9 |
We think of nothing excellent without | 36 |
To find a home only in the deep | 78 |
Urheberrecht | |
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Bibliografische Informationen
| Titel | Crafting Flesh, Crafting the Self: Violence and Identity in Early Nineteenth-century German Literature |
| Autor/in | John B. Lyon |
| Verlag | Bucknell University Press, 2006 |
| Original von | die University of Virginia |
| Digitalisiert | 6. Mai 2008 |
| ISBN | 083875631X, 9780838756317 |
| Länge | 280 Seiten |
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