The Future Life of Trauma: Partitions, Borders, Repetition

by Jennifer Yusin

Book Overview

The Future Life of Trauma elaborates a transformation in the concepts of trauma and event by situating a groundbreaking encounter between psychoanalytic and postcolonial discourse. Proceeding from the formation of psychical life as presented in the Freudian metapsychology, it thinks anew the relation between temporality and traumatized subjectivity, demonstrating how the psychic event, as a traumatic event, is a material reality that alters the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823275469
• ISBN13: 9780823275465
• Release Date: June 2017
• Publisher: Modern Language Initiative
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"