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MAIS 662: Mourning and Trauma: Theoretical and Historical Debates (Rev. 2) Report a Broken Link

Week 1

Laplanche, Jean (1999). "Interpretation between determinism and hermeneutics: a restatement of the problem," in Philip Slotkin (trans.), Essays on Otherness. London: Routledge.

Week 2

Caruth, Cathy. Introduction: Psychoanalysis, Culture and Trauma I. American Imago 48:1 (1991) 1-12.
Caruth, Cathy. Introduction: Psychoanalysis, Culture and Trauma II. American Imago 48:4 (1991) 417-24.

Week 4

LaCapra, D. (1999)  "Trauma, absence, loss." Critical Inquiry 25:4, 696–727.

Week 6

Brown, Laura. (1991). Not Outside the Range: One Feminist Perspective on Psychic Trauma. American Imago 48:1 : 119-13

Week 7

Freud, S. (1917). "Mourning and melancholia." In The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud, Volume XIV (1914-1916): On the history of the psycho-analytic movement, Papers on metapsychology and other works, 237-258.

Week 10

Derrida, J. (1986). "Foreword." In The wolf man's magic word: A cryptonymy, edited by Nicolas Abraham.  Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, pp. xi–L.

Week 11

Kirmayer, L. J., Gone, J. P., & Moses, J. (2014). Rethinking Historical Trauma. Transcultural Psychiatry, 51(3), 299–319.

Week 12

Eng, D, (2000), Feminisms at a Millennium. Signs 25: 4: 1275–1281.
Butler, J. (1997). Melancholy Gender—Refused Identification. Psychoanalytic Dialogues. In The Psychic Life of Power: Theories in Subjugation. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 132–150.

Week 13

Cheng, A. (1997). A Melancholy of Race. The Kenyon Review, New Series 19: 1, 49–61.
Bohorquez, P. (2009). Psychic and Ethical Dimensions of Language Loss. Journal of Intercultural Studies 30: 2, 157–172.

Supplementary Readings

Habermas, J. (1989). "Apologetic tendencies." In The New Conservatism: Cultural Criticism and the Historians' Debate, edited by Shierry Weber Nicholsen. Massachusetts: MIT Press, pp. 213-227.
Habermas, J. (1989). "On the public use of history." In The New Conservatism: Cultural Criticism and the Historians' Debate, edited by Shierry Weber Nicholsen. Massachusetts: MIT Press, pp. 229-266.
Habermas, J. (1989). "Historical consciousness and post-traditional identity: The federal republic's orientation to the west." In The New Conservatism: Cultural Criticism and the Historians' Debate, edited by Shierry Weber Nicholsen. Massachusetts: MIT Press, pp. 249-266.