1st Edition
Psychoanalysis, Poetic Testimony and the Trauma of the Holocaust
Part one: The primal scream and the silence 1. Absence as the language of trauma 2. Poetic testimony of Holocaust trauma Part Two: Three modes of poetic Holocaust testimony 3. On bodily memory in Aharon Appelfeld’s Searing Light and The Man Who Never Stopped Sleeping 4. On emotional memory in Ka-Tzetnik’s The House of Dolls 5. On rational memory in Primo Levi’s If This Is a Man and other works Part Three: In search of a form for the Primal Scream 6. Discussion and Conclusion
Biography
Rina Dudai is an interdisciplinary scholar of literature, film, and psychoanalysis, based in Israel. She is a member of the interdisciplinary group at the Tel Aviv Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis.
"Psychoanalysis, Poetic Testimony, and the Trauma of the Holocaust is, in my opinion, the most significant, systematic, and coherent book that has been published to date about the rhetoric style of poetic testimony of the Holocaust trauma, which emerged, in the words of Paul Celan, 'through the thousand darknesses of death-bringing speech'.”
Professor Yigal Schwartz, The Department of Hebrew Literature, Ben Gurion University in the Negev
"Psychoanalysis, Poetic Testimony, and the Trauma of the Holocaust is a luminous and transformative book that deepens our understanding of trauma and recovery. With poetic brilliance and theoretical rigor, Dudai achieves the seemingly impossible – putting powerful words to experiences that words cannot capture, venturing into the zone of the unspeakable. Dudai masterfully bridges the gap between intellectual understanding and emotional resonance, guiding readers on a profound journey through the landscapes of trauma, memory, and witnessing."
Galit Atlas, PhD, author of Emotional Inheritance, faculty NYU Postdoctoral Program for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis
