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| 0680-5148-01 | The Afterward Time | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| FACULTY OF HUMANITIES | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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University credit hours: 4.0
Course description
The Afterward Time
The mechanism of afterwardness has been developed by Freud to explain the structure of trauma: a trauāatic event cannot be comprehended when it actually takes place but only retroactively through a second event. However, Freud soon discovered the problematic of this mechanism, since it is impossible to know whether the first event actually took place or was only retroactively constructed. In this seminar we will discuss the mechanism of afterwardness with the help of literature (Proust, Duras) and theory (Lyotard, Derrida, Baudrillard, Caruth). We will analyze the different forms of afterwardness and how this mechanism may tackle the question of origin formulated by post-modernism.
The mechanism of afterwardness has been developed by Freud to explain the structure of trauma: a trauāatic event cannot be comprehended when it actually takes place but only retroactively through a second event. However, Freud soon discovered the problematic of this mechanism, since it is impossible to know whether the first event actually took place or was only retroactively constructed. In this seminar we will discuss the mechanism of afterwardness with the help of literature (Proust, Duras) and theory (Lyotard, Derrida, Baudrillard, Caruth). We will analyze the different forms of afterwardness and how this mechanism may tackle the question of origin formulated by post-modernism.