Shattered Subjects
Title | Shattered Subjects PDF eBook |
Author | Suzette A. Henke |
Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
Pages | 216 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780312210205 |
Judith Herman has noted that "the most common post-traumatic disorders are those not of men in war but of women in civilian life." How have women survived, both individually and collectively, in the face of unimaginable trauma? In this important new book, Suzette Henke finds evidence that women often use writing in order to heal the wounds of psychological trauma. She terms this method "scriptotherapy," the process of writing out and writing through traumatic experience in the mode of therapeutic re-enactment. Shattered Subjects explores the autobiographical writings of six 20th-century women authors who experienced life-shattering trauma and used their writings as a means for survival and healing. The literary testimonies of Colette, Hilda Doolittle, Anais Nin, Janet Frame, Audre Lorde, and Sylvia Fraser provide startling evidence of post-traumatic stress disorder precipitated by rape, incest, childhood sexual abuse, grief, unwanted pregnancy, pregnancy-loss, or a severe illness that threatens the integrity of the body. Henke examines the compelling works evinced by these experiences for their patterns of similarity as well as their uniqueness and analyzes traumatic narrative as the focal point of a large body of autobiographical practice representing the genre of narrative recovery. Shattered Subjects suggests that the powerful medium of written autobiographical testimony may allow the resolution or reconfiguration of the most emotionally distressing experiences.
Shattered Subjects
Title | Shattered Subjects PDF eBook |
Author | Suzette Henke |
Publisher | |
Pages | 216 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Mentally ill, Writings of the |
ISBN | 9780333929872 |
This text explores the autobiographical testimonies of six 20th-century women authors whose writings employ narratives of scriptotherapy in order to heal the wounds of psychological trauma. This psychoanalytic study focuses on the sexual/textual inscription of traumatic narrative as the focal point of a large body of autobiographical practice representing the genre of narrative recovery. The literary testimonies of Colette, Hilda Doolittle, Anais Nin, Audre Lorde, Janet Frame, and Sylvia Fraser provide evidence of post-traumatic stress disorder precipitated by rape, incest, childhood sexual abuse, unwanted pregnancy, pregnancy loss, or a severe illness that threatens the integrity of the body. The compelling writings produced by these experiences are examined for their patterns of similarity and their points of uniqueness. The book suggests that the powerful medium of written autobiographical testimony may make the resolution or reconfiguration of the most emotionally distressing experiences possible.
Revolutionary Subjects in the English "Jacobin" Novel, 1790-1805
Title | Revolutionary Subjects in the English "Jacobin" Novel, 1790-1805 PDF eBook |
Author | Miriam L. Wallace |
Publisher | Bucknell University Press |
Pages | 315 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0838757057 |
The "Jacobin" novel was labeled as such in Britain because of its supposed connections to the French Revolution. This book takes an in-depth look at these novels, written between 1790 and 1805. She centers on the group surrounding Wollstonecraft and Godwin, although not exclusively, exploring the limits of their philosophy of human rights and personal subjectivity. Unlike other recent scholars, the author treats both male and female writers, making feminism an aspect of the work but not the overriding one. While the novels are the main focus, other work by the writers is considered as it pertains to their beliefs. She also discusses the reaction from those who defined the "Jacobins" by opposing them.
Restoring the Shattered Self
Title | Restoring the Shattered Self PDF eBook |
Author | Heather Davediuk Gingrich |
Publisher | InterVarsity Press |
Pages | 268 |
Release | 2020-03-03 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 0830831894 |
Many counselors are not adequately prepared to help those suffering from complex posttraumatic stress disorder (C-PTSD). In this updated text, Heather Davediuk Gingrich provides an essential resource for Christian counselors, ably integrating the established research on trauma therapy with insights from her own thirty years of experience and an understanding of the special concerns related to Christian counseling.
The Text is Myself
Title | The Text is Myself PDF eBook |
Author | Miriam Fuchs |
Publisher | Univ of Wisconsin Press |
Pages | 284 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780299190644 |
German Jewish novelist Grete Weil fled to Holland, but her husband was arrested there and murdered by the Nazis. Chilean novelist Isabel Allende fled her country after her uncle Salvador Allende was assassinated, and she later lost her daughter to disease."
The Shattered Self
Title | The Shattered Self PDF eBook |
Author | Richard B. Ulman |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 345 |
Release | 2013-05-13 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 1135061939 |
Ulman and Brothers utilize a unique clinical research population of rape and incest victims and Vietnam combat veterans to argue that trauma results from real occurrences that have, as their unconscious meaning, the shattering of "central organizing fantasies" of self in relation to selfobject. Their innovative treatment approach revolves around the transformation of these shattered fantasies in the intersubjective context of the transference-countertransference neurosis.
Shattered Pillars
Title | Shattered Pillars PDF eBook |
Author | Elizabeth Bear |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 336 |
Release | 2013-03-19 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1429947772 |
The Shattered Pillars is the second book of Bear's The Eternal Sky trilogy and the sequel to Range of Ghosts. Set in a world drawn from our own great Asian Steppes, this saga of magic, politics and war sets Re-Temur, the exiled heir to the great Khagan and his friend Sarmarkar, a Wizard of Tsarepheth, against dark forces determined to conquer all the great Empires along the Celedon Road. Elizabeth Bear is an astonishing writer, whose prose draws you into strange and wonderful worlds, and makes you care deeply about the people and the stories she tells. The world of The Eternal Sky is broadly and deeply created—her award-nominated novella, "Bone and Jewel Creatures" is also set there. The Eternal Sky Trilogy #1 Range of Ghosts #2 Shattered Pillars #3 Steles of the Sky At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.