La Panique Historique. History Encountering Contingency
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Ulrike Kistner
Abstract
Tracing the conditions and consequences of the disarticulations of narrativist conceptions of historiography, notably within the constructions of a psycho-history, we show how Freud's revised understanding of defences and disavowals have de-linked memory and consciousness. This brings psychoanalysis face to face with its own disavowals. The ghost of hypnosis re-surfaces in its role in group psychology, where it is closely linked to the phenomenon of panic. Freud concedes that this is not the absolute limit of the group, but the limit constitutive of the group. By virtue of its constitutive role, panic attains a theoretical status. La panique historique is a theoretical panic that confronts the denials over which a narrativist historiography had claimed mastery.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Adressen der Mitarbeiter
- Introduction. Framing Contingency: History and Heterology
- Framing the Frame: Contingency, Connection and Divestiture in Literary History and Criticism
- Naming and Contingency, and Some Implications for Begriffsgeschichte
- About Artful Production of Contingency
- Zufälligkeitssinn. Adalbert Stifters Umgang mit der Kontingenz
- Subjective Contingency and Autobiographical Writing
- Counter-Memory and Phantasma
- La Panique Historique. History Encountering Contingency
- History as Effects of Power
- Neutralizing Contingency: Ammianus Marcellinus as a Participant in Julian's Persian Campaign, 363 AD
- “Der Einbruch der Zeit in das Spiel”: Hamlet from Berlin (East)
- “Bridge to Antiquity“. Nostalgia, Exile, and Stoicism in the Poetry of Durs Grünbein
- OΔYΣΣEYΣ OYTIΣ: Odysseus Nobody
- Darstellungen von Dora. Thomas Pynchons Gravity's Rainbow im Spannungsfeld von fiktionalen, historiographischen und erinnerungsbasierten Repräsentationen des Konzentrationslagers Mittelbau-Dora
- Die erlebte Rede als temporales Phänomen
- Rezensionen
Articles in the same Issue
- Adressen der Mitarbeiter
- Introduction. Framing Contingency: History and Heterology
- Framing the Frame: Contingency, Connection and Divestiture in Literary History and Criticism
- Naming and Contingency, and Some Implications for Begriffsgeschichte
- About Artful Production of Contingency
- Zufälligkeitssinn. Adalbert Stifters Umgang mit der Kontingenz
- Subjective Contingency and Autobiographical Writing
- Counter-Memory and Phantasma
- La Panique Historique. History Encountering Contingency
- History as Effects of Power
- Neutralizing Contingency: Ammianus Marcellinus as a Participant in Julian's Persian Campaign, 363 AD
- “Der Einbruch der Zeit in das Spiel”: Hamlet from Berlin (East)
- “Bridge to Antiquity“. Nostalgia, Exile, and Stoicism in the Poetry of Durs Grünbein
- OΔYΣΣEYΣ OYTIΣ: Odysseus Nobody
- Darstellungen von Dora. Thomas Pynchons Gravity's Rainbow im Spannungsfeld von fiktionalen, historiographischen und erinnerungsbasierten Repräsentationen des Konzentrationslagers Mittelbau-Dora
- Die erlebte Rede als temporales Phänomen
- Rezensionen
