dc.creator | Moore, Jacqueline | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-08-22T00:38:50Z | |
dc.date.available | 2009-05-20 | |
dc.date.issued | 2009-05-20 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/etd-05012009-091855 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1803/12247 | |
dc.description.abstract | Partially borrowing a title from Freud’s “Instincts and Their Vicissitudes,” this thesis will take up a similar project in the sense that it will examine the different destinies or variations that memory fulfills as a dynamic apparatus, and one important aspect of human embodied experience. By eliciting Spinoza and Freud as the foundational theories on mind and its relation to body, I contour a discussion of individual trauma, historical trauma, and testimony that situates the human individual as both a producer and produced by historical and political conditions. Ultimately I advocate for a dialectical approach that values stories as the last mode of communicating reflective human experience, and sees the “past” as history living in the present. | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.subject | memory | |
dc.subject | trauma | |
dc.subject | history | |
dc.subject | stories | |
dc.subject | alienation | |
dc.subject | embodiment | |
dc.subject | testimony | |
dc.subject | Spinoza | |
dc.subject | Freud | |
dc.subject | Marx | |
dc.subject | Adorno | |
dc.subject | Benjamin | |
dc.subject | Primo Levi | |
dc.title | Memory and Its Vicissitudes: An Examination of Memory, Trauma, and History | |
dc.type | thesis | |
dc.contributor.committeeMember | Gregg M. Horowitz | |
dc.type.material | text | |
thesis.degree.name | MA | |
thesis.degree.level | thesis | |
thesis.degree.discipline | Philosophy | |
thesis.degree.grantor | Vanderbilt University | |
local.embargo.terms | 2009-05-20 | |
local.embargo.lift | 2009-05-20 | |
dc.contributor.committeeChair | Idit Dobbs-Weinstein | |