Author : Anne Whitehead
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781138727809
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (278 download)
Book Synopsis Between the Psyche and the Polis by : Anne Whitehead
Download or read book Between the Psyche and the Polis written by Anne Whitehead and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-28 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2000. Incorporating studies of Freudian and Marxist approaches to questions of history and memory, this timely collection illuminates how history is being refigured in contemporary literary, cultural and theoretical studies. The contributors to this volume invite the reader to attend to the forms - linguistic, visual, monumental - by which a connection with, or separation from, the past takes place. It is current thinking about memory's relationship to history, and the ongoing critical reassessment of historicism, that preoccupies this collection. The volume explores the ways in which current thinking about the past operates within a dialogic space and can be located in relation to multiple perspectives. Thus cultural memory can be seen not just as a recent development within the field of cultural studies, but as constructing a between-space which also draws in aspects of psychoanalysis. Similarly, trauma theory may usefully be conceptualized as operating in a rich and complex dynamic between deconstruction and the work of Freud. Temporality, memory and the past are attended to here in terms of the dislocations of narrative, of resistances to linear genealogies, to aid the reader in making unanticipated connections between theories and cultures, and between the demands of the psyche and the polis.