Bodily Detours: Sarah Kofman's Narratives of Childhood Trauma
Although psychological trauma has repeatedly been described in terms of the body, the relation between traumatic loss, narrative, and the body requires further elucidation. This article explores how Sarah Kofman's autobiographical texts-"Rue Ordener", "rue Labat" and critica...
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| description | Although psychological trauma has repeatedly been described in terms of the body, the relation between traumatic loss, narrative, and the body requires further elucidation. This article explores how Sarah Kofman's autobiographical texts-"Rue Ordener", "rue Labat" and critically neglected shorter texts-deploy bodily figures to narrate Kofman's own traumatic childhood as a Jew in Occupied France. Where psychoanalytic theory offers a model of articulating traumatic loss through bodily figures, Kofman's writing mobilizes a different model figured through a corporeal 'double bind' that embodies the difficulty and concomitant necessity of recounting traumatic loss. |
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