Trauma

Cathy Caruth is associate professor of English at Yale University. She is the author of Empirical Truths and Critical Fictions, also available from Johns Hopkins.

• PrefacePart I: Trauma and Experience Chapter 1. IntroductionChapter 2. Education and Crisis, or the Vicissitudes of TeachingChapter 3. Truth and Testimony: The Process and the StruggleChapter 4. Trauma and Aging: A Thirty-Year Follow-UpChapter 5. Not Outside the Range: One Feminist Perspective on Psychic TraumaChapter 6. Freud: Frontier Concepts, Jewishness, and Interpretation Chapter 7. An Interview with Robert Jay LiftonPart II: Recapturing the PastChapter 8. IntroductionChapter 9. The Intrusive Past: The Flexibility of Memory and the Engraving of TraumaChapter 10. Notes on Trauma and Community Chapter 11. The Obscenity of Understanding: An Evening With Claude LanzmannChapter 12. Concerning the Accounts Given by the Residents of Hiroshima Chapter 13. Traumatic Poetry: Charles Baudelaire and the Shock of LaughterChapter 14. "The AIDS Crisis is Not Over": A Conversation with Gregg Bordowitz, Douglass Crimp, and Laura PinskyContributors

"An unusually informative, as well as sensitive, series of essays with important ramifications for interdisciplinary theory and both social and literary thought. Caruth and her contributors work at the very intersection of contemporary life and scholarship."--Geoffrey Hartman, Yale University "These essays offer fresh approaches on the subject of trauma from both a psychoanalytic and contemporary theoretical point of view. The combination of theoretical articles about trauma with interviews about its ongoing effects is a particular strength--and a particularly appropriate approach when the topic itself is silence or testimony about trauma. The book will be of great interest to those in the psychoanalytic community interested in this kind of interdisciplinary work."--Alan Bass, Ph.D., Psychoanalyst