Memory, trauma, and history
Subtitle: essays on living with the past
By: Michael S. Roth
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 293
ISBN-13: 9780231145688; 9780231145695; 9780231521611
Subjects: Psychic trauma; Social aspects; Photography; Philosophy; Psychological aspects; Psychoanalysis; Memory (Philosophy); History
Description: This collection features Roth's most influential essays, in which he takes a more expansive conception of history to decode the cultural construction of memory. He explores links between historical consciousness and issues relating to the psyche, including trauma and repression and hypnosis and therapy.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Remembering forgetting : Maladies de la Mémoire in nineteenth-century France; title: Dying of the past : medical studies of nostalgia in nineteenth-century France; title: Hysterical remembering; title: Trauma, representation, and historical consciousness; title: Trauma : a dystopia of the spirit; title: Falling into history : Freud's case of 'Frau Emmy von N.'; title: Why Freud haunts us; title: Why Warburg now?; title: Classic postmodernism : Keith Jenkins; title: Ebb tide : Frank Ankersmit; title: The art of losing oneself : Anne Carson and decreation; title: Inquiry as hope : Richard Rorty; title: Photographic ambivalence; title: Why photography matters to the theory of history; title: Ordinary film : Péter Forgács's The Maelstrom; title: Graves of the insane, decorated; title: On a certain blindness in teaching; title: Beyond critical thinking; title: Good and risky : on the promise of a liberal education.