Freud and the Scene of Trauma

John Fletcher

Published by Fordham University Press 2013

Freud and the Scene of Trauma

John Fletcher

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823254620

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About this book

This book describes the centrality of trauma to Freud’s thought, the moments of its apparent abandonment and later recurrences, from the seduction theory to the Death Drive. At these turning points Freud engages with the works of Sophocles, Shakespeare, Hoffmann and da Vinci as thought experiments in the imaginary space of literature and painting.

Author / Editor information

Fletcher John :

John Fletcher is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Warwick.

Reviews

—Peter Fonagy:
This book is a gem. It is written on a number of levels: Freud’s scholarship, literary scholarship, psychoanalytic scholarship, and psychology. It has depth and subtlety at the same time as providing a good read for a wide range of audiences. I recommend it wholeheartedly to students at all levels of seniority, including the most serious of scholars.

—Judith Butler:
Fletcher offers a distinctly original reformulation of a psychoanalytic account of fantasy and memory, focusing on its belated and non-mimetic dimensions. This account has far-reaching consequences for the status and ethical value of psychoanalysis within contemporary intellectual life. . . . The chapters of this book are distinguished not only by their enormous theoretical power and precision, but by Fletcher's nearly uncanny ability to read both literary and theoretical texts with great powers of illumination and nuance. It is rare to find someone who combines his capacity for sustained and lucid abstract discussion with such a fine capacity for close textual reading.

There can be no doubt that this book will reward scholars across a number of disciplines: literary studies, trauma studies, psychoanalysis and psychology, and philosophy

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
List of Figures Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
Prologue: Freud’s Scenographies Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I: The Power of Scenes
1. Charcot’s Hysteria: Trauma and the Hysterical Attack Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
2. Freud’s Hysteria: “Scenes of Passionate Movement” Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	36
Part II: Memorial Fantasies, Fantasmatic Memories
3. The Afterwardsness of Trauma and the Theory of Seduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
4. Memory and the Key of Fantasy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	88
5. The Scenography of Trauma: Oedipus as Tragedy and Complex Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
Part III: Screen Memories and the Return of Seduction
6. Leonardo’s Screen Memory Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155
7. Flying and Painting: Leonardo’s Rival Sublimations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	180
Part IV: Prototypes and the Primal
8. The Transference and Its Prototypes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
9. The Wolf Man I: Constructing the Primal Scene Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	220
10. The Wolf Man II: Interpreting the Primal Scene Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	248
Part V: Trauma and the Compulsion to Repeat
11. Trauma and the Genealogy of the Death Drive Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	279
12. Uncanny Repetitions: Freud, Hoffmann, and the Death- Work Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	316
Epilogue Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	348
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	351
Index of the Works of Freud Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	359
General Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	361

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Pages
- Main content: 336
Keywords: freud; trauma; seduction; hysteria; fantasy; primal scene; screen memory; afterwardsness; repetition; death drive

eBook

Published: December 2, 2013
ISBN: 9780823254620