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From Freud To Kafka

Author : Philippe Refabert
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429914121
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book From Freud To Kafka written by Philippe Refabert and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes the reader on a captivating journey leading from an erroneous founding assumption inherited from Freud, to the proposal of a principle better suited to allowing the psychoanalyst to accompany the patient out of his impasse. The founding assumption of the book, already questioned by many analysts among whom Sandor Ferenczi figures as a brilliant forerunner, was the author's starting point in re-examining the basic precepts of psychoanalysis. Reading Kafka made the author conclude that this masterful storyteller describes borderline situations, so familiar to him, better than anyone. An avid reader of Freud, Kafka suggests that the human capacity to bear a paradoxical position between life and death is not given to the child naturally, at birth. Kafka seems to say that giving life is easy, but that giving it the necessary support in the form of the trace of death is more problematic.

The Language of Trauma

Author : John Zilcosky
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487509413
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book The Language of Trauma written by John Zilcosky and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Napoleonic Wars to the invention of the railway to the shell shock of World War I, writers tried to give voice to the suffering that war and industrial technology had wrought all around them. Yet they, like the doctors who treated these victims, repeatedly ran up against the incapacity of language to describe such anguish; those who suffered trauma, those who tried to heal it, and those who represented it were all unable to find the appropriate words. In The Language of Trauma, John Zilcosky uncovers the reactions of three major central European writers – E.T.A. Hoffmann, Sigmund Freud, and Franz Kafka – to the birth of modern trauma in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Zilcosky makes the case that Hoffmann, Freud, and Kafka managed to find the language of trauma precisely by not attempting to name the trauma conclusively and instead allowing their writing to mimic the experience itself. Just as the victims’ symptoms seemed not to correspond to a physical cause, the writers’ words did not connect directly to the objects of the world. While doctors attempted to overcome this indeterminacy, these writers embraced and investigated it; they sought a language that described language’s tragic limits and that, in so doing, exemplified the wider literary and philosophical crisis of their time. Zilcosky boldly argues that this linguistic scepticism emerged together with the medical inability to name the experience of trauma. He thereby places trauma where it belongs: at the heart of both medicine’s diagnostic predicament and modern literature’s most daring experiments.

From Freud to Kafka

Author : Philippe Réfabert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (883 download)

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Download or read book From Freud to Kafka written by Philippe Réfabert and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Reinscribing Moses

Author : Bluma Goldstein
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674754065
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (54 download)

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Download or read book Reinscribing Moses written by Bluma Goldstein and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines problems of German-Jewish and Austrian-Jewish identity through analysis of the figure of Moses in the works of Heine, Kafka, Freud, and Schoenberg. Discusses the view of Moses as the liberator of oppressed Jewry on the background of antisemitism in 19th-20th century Europe. See especially pp. 69-77, "Freud and Antisemitism".

Shadow Lines

Author : Lorna Martens
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803231863
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Shadow Lines written by Lorna Martens and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intellectual culture in early twentieth-century Austria reached levels of originality and excellence that have rarely been equalled before or since. Shadow Lines examines works by major novelists, dramatists, poets, and intellectuals of that extraordinary era-among them, Sigmund Freud, Arthur Schnitzler, Robert Musil, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Rainer Maria Rilke, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Franz Kafka. Lorna Martens considers how each of these authors contributed to a decisive transformation in Austrian culture, involving a shift away from the dialectical syntheses of much nineteenth-century German thought and culture to potent, unresolvable dualisms of known and unknown-orderly and chaotic-features of human experience: consciousness and the unconscious, reason and the irrational, language and the inexpressible. In most of these writers, according to Martens, all that is knowable, reasonable, and orderly is grounded in that which is dark, irrational, chaotic. What Martens calls "the dark area" emerges variously "as the unconscious (Freud), the sexual drive (Freud, Schnitzler, Musil), the death instinct (Freud, Schnitzler), the dangerous chaos below the surface of things (Rilke), the inaccessible totality (von Hofmannsthal), or the unsayable (Mauthner, von Hofmannsthal, Musil, Wittgenstein)." The essential yet enigmatic relation between the known and the unknown leads to much that is unsettling-and strangely fascinating-in these writers' works. A book that shrewdly relates the works of these authors to the intellectual and political turmoil of the times, Shadow Lines is a new critical appraisal of Austrian literature and intellectual culture at the dawn of the century. Lorna Martens is anassociate professor in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Virginia. She is the author of The Diary Novel.

Prophets Without Honour: Freud, Kafka, Einstein, and Their World

Author : Frederic V. Grunfeld
Publisher : Plunkett Lake Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prophets Without Honour: Freud, Kafka, Einstein, and Their World written by Frederic V. Grunfeld and published by Plunkett Lake Press. This book was released on 2019-08-17 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prophets Without Honour is a collective biography set in an extraordinary epoch of cultural history sometimes called “the Weimar Renaissance.” In a series of mini-portraits, Grunfeld has written a tribute to the German-speaking scientists, musicians, writers and artists who created European cultural life in the early twentieth century. All were evicted or murdered by the Nazis. Albert Einstein, Walter Benjamin, Sigmund Freud, Gustav Mahler, and Franz Kafka are the best-known of his subjects but Grunfeld includes such lesser-known figures as Else Lasker-Schüler, Ernst Toller, Gertrud Kolmar, Alfred Döblin, Erich Mühsam, Carl Sternheim, Kurt Tucholsky and Hermann Broch. Grunfeld summarizes their lives, illuminates their work, traces their interactions, and sets it all against the background of Central European political and cultural life in the first three decades of the last century. “Grunfeld’s fascinating ‘collective biography’... is a peculiar and moving achievement because it puts faces and feet on ideas... one of the odd pleasures of this book is, in its digressions, Mr. Grunfeld’s curiosity.” — John Leonard, The New York Times “He has put the whole awful, tragic, somehow ennobling story together with a quiet passion and a wealth of unexpected details.” — Alfred Kazin “This is a fascinating introduction, written with clarity, compassion, and verve. Strongly recommended.” — Library Journal “Grunfeld has brought to life a whole generation that had been buried alive... To read this book is an intellectual adventure. One partakes of the great drama of art and politics played out by Germans and Jews before the darkness fell over Europe.” —Lucy Dawidowicz

The Demon of Writing

Author : Ben Kafka
Publisher : Zone Books
ISBN 13 : 194213035X
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (421 download)

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Download or read book The Demon of Writing written by Ben Kafka and published by Zone Books. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history and theory of the powers, the failures, and even the pleasures of paperwork. Since the middle of the eighteenth century, political thinkers of all kinds—radical and reactionary, professional and amateur—have been complaining about “bureaucracy.” But what, exactly, are they complaining about? In The Demon of Writing, Ben Kafka offers a critical history and theory of one of the most ubiquitous, least understood forms of media: paperwork. States rely on records to tax and spend, protect and serve, discipline and punish. But time and again, this paperwork proves to be unreliable. Examining episodes that range from the story of a clerk who lost his job and then his mind in the French Revolution to an account of Roland Barthes's brief stint as a university administrator, Kafka reveals the powers, the failures, and even the pleasures of paperwork. Many of its complexities, he argues, have been obscured by the comic-paranoid style that characterizes much of our criticism of bureaucracy. Kafka proposes a new theory of what Karl Marx called the “bureaucratic medium.” Moving from Marx to Freud, he argues that this theory of paperwork must include both a theory of praxis and of parapraxis.

The Myth of Power and the Self

Author : Walter Herbert Sokel
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814326084
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book The Myth of Power and the Self written by Walter Herbert Sokel and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Myth of Power and the Self brings together Walter Sokel's most significant essays on Kafka written over a period of thirty-one years, 1966-1997. Franz Kafka (1883-1924) has come to be one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. The Myth of Power and the Self brings together Walter Sokel's most significant essays on Kafka written over a period of thirty-one years, 1966-1997. This volume begins with a discussion of Sokel's 1966 pamphlet on Kafka and a summary of his 1964 book, Tragik und Ironie (Tragedy and Irony), which has never been translated into English, and includes several essays published in English for the first time. Sokel places Kafka's writings in a very large cultural context by fusing Freudian and Expressionist perspectives and incorporating more theoretical approaches--linguistic theory, Gnosticism, and aspects of Derrida--into his synthesis. This superb collection of essays by one of the most qualified Kafka scholars today will bring new understanding to Kafka's work and will be of interest to literary critics, intellectual historians, and students and scholars of German literature and Kafka.

The Strong Light of the Canonical

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Strong Light of the Canonical written by Harold Bloom and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Reading After Freud

Author : Rainer Nägele
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231062862
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (628 download)

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Download or read book Reading After Freud written by Rainer Nägele and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Companion to the Works of Franz Kafka

Author : James Rolleston
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 9781571133366
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (333 download)

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Book Synopsis A Companion to the Works of Franz Kafka by : James Rolleston

Download or read book A Companion to the Works of Franz Kafka written by James Rolleston and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2006 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kafka's novels and stories fascinate readers and critics of each generation. Although all theories attempt to appropriate Kafka, there is no one key to his work. This work aims to present a point of view while taking account of previous Kafka research.

Kafka's Ethics of Interpretation

Author : Jennifer L. Geddes
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810132915
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Kafka's Ethics of Interpretation written by Jennifer L. Geddes and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kafka's Ethics of Interpretation refutes the oft-repeated claim, made by Kafka's greatest interpreters, including Walter Benjamin and Harold Bloom, that Kafka sought to evade interpretation of his writings. Jennifer L. Geddes shows that this claim about Kafka's deliberate uninterpretability is not only wrong, it also misconstrues a central concern of his work. Kafka was not trying to avoid or prevent interpretation; rather, his works are centrally concerned with it. Geddes explores the interpretation that takes place within, and in response to, Kafka's writings, and pairs Kafka's works with readings of Sigmund Freud, Pierre Bourdieu, Tzvetan Todorov, Emmanuel Levinas, and others. She argues that Kafka explores interpretation as a mode of power and violence, but also as a mode of engagement with the world and others. Kafka, she argues, challenges us to rethink the ways we read texts, engage others, and navigate the world through our interpretations of them.

The Lost Writings

Author : Franz Kafka
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811228029
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book The Lost Writings written by Franz Kafka and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A windfall for every reader: a trove of marvelous impossible-to-find Kafka stories in a masterful new translation by Michael Hofmann Selected by the preeminent Kafka biographer and scholar Reiner Stach and newly translated by the peerless Michael Hofmann, the seventy-four pieces gathered here have been lost to sight for decades and two of them have never been translated into English before. Some stories are several pages long; some run about a page; a handful are only a few lines long: all are marvels. Even the most fragmentary texts are revelations. These pieces were drawn from two large volumes of the S. Fischer Verlag edition Nachgelassene Schriften und Fragmente (totaling some 1100 pages). “Franz Kafka is the master of the literary fragment,” as Stach comments in his afterword: "In no other European author does the proportion of completed and published works loom quite so...small in the overall mass of his papers, which consist largely of broken-off beginnings.” In fact, as Hofmann recently added: “‘Finished' seems to me, in the context of Kafka, a dubious or ironic condition, anyway. The more finished, the less finished. The less finished, the more finished. Gregor Samsa’s sister Grete getting up to stretch in the streetcar. What kind of an ending is that?! There’s perhaps some distinction to be made between ‘finished' and ‘ended.' Everything continues to vibrate or unsettle, anyway. Reiner Stach points out that none of the three novels were ‘completed.' Some pieces break off, or are concluded, or stop—it doesn’t matter!—after two hundred pages, some after two lines. The gusto, the friendliness, the wit with which Kafka launches himself into these things is astonishing.”

Prophets Without Honour

Author : Frederic V. Grunfeld
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Companies
ISBN 13 : 9780070250871
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (58 download)

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Download or read book Prophets Without Honour written by Frederic V. Grunfeld and published by McGraw-Hill Companies. This book was released on 1980-01-01 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the history of the GermanJewish intellectuals of our age against the German schizophrenia that led to the Final Solution

Kafka: A Very Short Introduction

Author : Ritchie Robertson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192804553
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)

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Download or read book Kafka: A Very Short Introduction written by Ritchie Robertson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-10-28 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Franz Kafka is one of the most intriguing writers of the 20th century. In this text the author provides an up-to-date introduction to Kafka, beginning with an examination of his life and then discussing some of the major themes that emerge in Kafka's work.

Kafka

Author : Kaj Bernhard Genell
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 9180075622
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Kafka written by Kaj Bernhard Genell and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-04-19 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Kafka - a Fredo-Structuralist Analysis" is an analysis of Kafka's Novels and short Stories. This book concentrates on understanding what contributed to the famous Kafka effect. The author explains the structural triplicity of a discourse seen as Consciousness. It also describes how Freud, Romantic irony, and Symbolistic literature simultaneously co-work as the mythical subtext of Kafka's work. Kafka created something that would become part of defining Modern Man. Understanding Kafka is the road to understanding Modernity.

Why I Don't Write Like Franz Kafka

Author : William Wilson
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 9781573661010
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Why I Don't Write Like Franz Kafka written by William Wilson and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly 25 years later, FC2 is proud to reissue this classic collection of short fiction by William S. Wilson that seems even more relevant today.