Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative and History
Unclaimed Experienceis a splendid work, written with admirable clarity, power, and economy. The book has importance for a number of different fields: for psychoanalysis, for trauma theory or theory of 'post-traumatic stress disorder,' for literary study, for literary theory for cultural and historical studies, and for ethical theory. Each chapter is a classic essay on its topic.(J. Hillis Miller, University of California, Irvine)Cathy Caruth has emerged as one of our most innovative scholars on what we call trauma, and on our ways of perceiving and conceptualizing that still mysterious phenomenon.(Robert Jay Lifton, M.D., author ofHiroshima in AmericaandThe Protean Self)