Trauma In Cathy Caruth's 'Unclaimed Experience'

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What
Did
You
(Not)
See?
 In
 Unclaimed Experience,
 Cathy
 Caruth
 proposes
 that
 in
 the
 experience
 of
 trauma
in
our
century,
both
in
its
occurrence
and
in
our
attempt
to
understand
it,
we
 can
 recognize
 the
 possibility
 of
 a
 history
 no
 longer
 based
 on
 simple
 models
 of
 straightforward
 experience
 and
 reference.
 She
 argues
 that
 the
 language
 of
 literature
 and
the
psychoanalytic
theory
intersect
at
a
site
of
knowing
and
not
knowing.

Caruth
 examines
the
way
psychoanalysis,
literature,
and
literary
theory
portrays
and
witness
to
 bodily
and
historical
woundings.

Through
the
notion
of
trauma,
she
contends,
we
come
 to
a
new
understanding
that
permits
history
to
arise
where
immediate
understanding
is
 impossible.


“The
experience
of
trauma,
the
fact
of
latency,
would
thus
seem
to
consist,

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