Trauma; transgenerational trauma; affect; affect and trauma transmission; feminist theory; poetry; poetic and experimental prose; fiction; memoir; continental philosophy; cultural psychoanalytic theory
'Trauma Obscura' Revealed: Revisiting Loss in W. G. Sebald’s 'Austerlitz'
in Alexandra Stara and Bényei Tamás (eds). Exploring the Edge of Trauma. London: Berghahn Books, 2013 (forthcoming)
Post-Holocaust Reconstructed Identities in Anne Michaels’s 'Fugitive Pieces' and W.G. Sebald’s 'Austerlitz'
In Tina Rahimy (Ed.). Representation, Expression and Identity. Oxford, U.K.: Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2009, pp. 266–75
The Dialectic of Silence and Remembrance in Lily Brett's Things Could Be Worse
Rita Ciotta Neves (ed.). Babilónia: Revista Lusófona de Línguas, Culturas e Tradução. nº especial 10/11, 2011. Lisboa: Edições Universitárias Lusófonas pp. 15-29.
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The dynamics of silence and remembrance in Australian writer Lily Brett’s autobiographic fiction... more
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The dynamics of silence and remembrance in Australian writer Lily Brett’s autobiographic fiction 'Things Could Be Worse' reflects the crisis of memory and understanding experienced by both first and second-generation Holocaust survivors within the diasporic space of contemporary Australia. It leads to issues of handling traumatic and transgenerational memory, the latter also known as postmemory (M. Hirsch), in the long aftermath of atrocities, and problematises the role of forgetting in shielding displaced identities against total dissolution of the self.
This paper explores the mechanisms of remembrance and forgetting in L. Brett’s narrative by mainly focusing on two female characters, mother and daughter, whose coming to terms with (the necessary) silence, on the one hand, and articulated memories, on the other, reflects different modes of comprehending and eventually coping with individual trauma. By differentiating between several types of silence encountered in Brett’s prose (that of the voiceless victims, of survivors and their offspring, respectively), I argue that silence can equally voice and hush traumatic experience, that it is never empty, but invested with individual and collective meaning. Essentially, I contend that beside the (self-)damaging effects of silence, there are also beneficial consequences of it, in that it plays a crucial role in emplacing the displaced, rebuilding their shattered self, and contributing to their reintegration, survival and even partial healing.
Keywords: silence of the Holocaust, traumatic memory, Jewish-Australian migrant identities, postmemory, autobiographic fiction
Factors associated with posttraumatic growth among the spouses of myocardial infarction patients
by Mithat Durak
Key Words: cognitive processing, environmental factors, individual factors, myocardial infarction patients, posttraumatic growth, spouses of myocardial infarction patients
To clarify the rationale behind Posttraumatic Growth (PTG), a model by Schaefer and Moos describes the relative... more To clarify the rationale behind Posttraumatic Growth (PTG), a model by Schaefer and Moos describes the relative contribution of environmental resources, individual resources, event related factors, cognitive processing and coping (CPC) on PTG. In the present study, this model was tested with the spouses of myocardial infarction patients with data from various hospitals in Turkey. A structural equation model revealed that neither individual nor environmental resources had indirect effects on PTG through the effect of event-related factors and CPC, while they showed direct effects on PTG. The findings were discussed in the context of the theoretical model.
La fuerza de la fantasía o la historia de un fantasma andino
Pensamiento herido. Filosofía, ficciones e insistemas de sonido España-Colombia (Bogotá: Universidad Javeriana, 2008), pp. 90-122.
El fantasma comporta un estatuto dual al comienzo del siglo XXI: una evanescencia fascinante que, sin embargo,... more
El fantasma comporta un estatuto dual al comienzo del siglo XXI: una evanescencia fascinante que, sin embargo, mantiene su capacidad perturbadora, aun cuando sólo haga uso de ella en ocasiones especiales. Me atrevo a sugerir que esa dualidad del fantasma contemporáneo está directamente relacionada con dos fenómenos. En primer lugar, la consagración a finales del siglo XVIII de la razón moderna a expensas de otros saberes, otras formas de conocer y otras posibles relaciones del saber con el poder. A partir de ese momento, se hace posible señalar ciertos saberes como producto de la superstición, el mito, la ignorancia; todos, la contracara oscura de la razón luminosa. No en vano durante una buena parte del siglo XVIII la razón victoriosa, optimista, se cree capaz de dominar los más íntimos secretos de la naturaleza y de expulsar los más terribles fantasmas de la historia.
En segundo lugar, aparece, sin embargo, la necesidad de reubicar las fuerzas inquietantes que acompañaban esos otros saberes, de encontrarles otros espacios menos amenazadores, de domesticarlos. Nacen los teatros de sombras, las cajas fantasmagóricas y otros espectáculos similares. El belga Etienne Gaspard Robert combinaba “experimentos ópticos […] y efectos de teatro para seducir a un público impresionable […] [y generar] un efecto macabro, terrorífico y fascinante a la vez” (en Roca, J. (c) 2007). Fantasmagoría que cada vez pierde más de lo terrible y gana en espectáculo, en muchos casos difiriendo su potencial inquietante. No obstante, como señalan Slavoj Zizek y Jacques Derrida, los desarrollos modernos en tecnologías y telecomunicaciones en vez de disminuir el ámbito de los fantasmas aumentan su poder y su capacidad de asediarnos. Tal vez por eso encuentran un hogar propicio en el cine y —quizá en los momentos más lúcidos, precisamente cuando no pierde su dimensión terrorífica— también en el arte y la literatura. No se explica de otro modo el que algún perturbado — y no lo digo en el sentido patológico, aunque también admite esa acepción— se acercara a los espejos de Óscar Muñoz, para borrar con sus manos los rostros crispados que llegan del más allá. Esto no es un acto ingenuo ni gratuito; al contrario, en un país donde la figura del ‘desaparecido’ constituye una devastadora inscripción rutinaria de lo espectral en lo social, el borrón sólo puede entenderse como una salida desesperada.
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