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Listening to Trauma: Conversations with Leaders in the Theory and Treatment of Catastrophic Experience
Cathy Caruth
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Description for Listening to Trauma: Conversations with Leaders in the Theory and Treatment of Catastrophic Experience
Paperback. A portion of the proceeds from sales of this book will go to the Grady Nia Project for abused, suicidal, and low-income African American women. Num Pages: 392 pages, 19, 19 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: JM; MMJ. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 231 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 554.
This new collection from Cathy Caruth features interviews with a diverse group of leaders in the theorization of, and response to, traumatic experience in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Crossing the boundaries of discipline and profession, Caruth's subjects include literary theorists and critics, psychoanalysts, psychiatrists, psychologists, political activists, filmmakers, public intellectuals, institutional leaders, and researchers. Exploring the intertwining of the intellectual and personal dimensions of experience, each interview is accompanied by Caruth's intimate photographic portrait of its subject. Caruth chose her subjects because of their impact on her thinking as well as their significant role as witnesses to the collective ... Read more
This new collection from Cathy Caruth features interviews with a diverse group of leaders in the theorization of, and response to, traumatic experience in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Crossing the boundaries of discipline and profession, Caruth's subjects include literary theorists and critics, psychoanalysts, psychiatrists, psychologists, political activists, filmmakers, public intellectuals, institutional leaders, and researchers. Exploring the intertwining of the intellectual and personal dimensions of experience, each interview is accompanied by Caruth's intimate photographic portrait of its subject. Caruth chose her subjects because of their impact on her thinking as well as their significant role as witnesses to the collective ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
546g
Number of Pages
392
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421414454
SKU
V9781421414454
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About Cathy Caruth
Cathy Caruth is Frank H. T. Rhodes Professor of Humane Letters at Cornell University. In addition to Trauma: Explorations in Memory, her previous books include Literature in the Ashes of History; Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative, and History; and Empirical Truths and Critical Fictions: Locke, Wordsworth, Kant, Freud, all published by Johns Hopkins.
Reviews for Listening to Trauma: Conversations with Leaders in the Theory and Treatment of Catastrophic Experience
In this extraordinary enterprise, Cathy Caruth achieves what is by definition an impossibility: making familiar the unfamiliar country of trauma, the place of displacement par excellence; the lieu of an 'erasure', as Dori Laub would say, where language is at a loss and a new language struggles to be heard, thanks to the construction of a new channel created by ... Read more