Freud and the Scene of Trauma
ISBN: 9780823254620
Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / Fordham University Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters
Subjects: Stress Disorders Traumatic; Medicine in Literature.; Medicine in Art.; Hysteria; Freudian Theory;

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.

Fletcher John :

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


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