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After Images - Photography, Archaeology, and Psychoanalysis and the Tradition of Bildung (Hardcover)
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After Images - Photography, Archaeology, and Psychoanalysis and the Tradition of Bildung (Hardcover)
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After Images explores the intersections of photography,
archaeology, and psychoanalysis and their effect on conceptions of
the subject and his formation or Bildung in the literature and
theory of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. All
three disciplines emerge out of the same historical context, and
both photography and archaeology had major impacts on how
psychoanalysis came to conceive of the subject, his memory, and the
formation of his identity; and psychoanalysis had an equally major
impact on how contemporary authors came to think about these same
things. In ""After Images"", Eric Downing examines works from
Thomas Mann, Sigmund Freud, and Walter Benjamin to find evidence of
the reconceiving and dismantling of the tradition of Bildung in
literature of this historical period. This volume begins by using
the work of Bergson, Proust, Darwin, and others to elaborate a
peculiarly modernist model of memory as a photographic plate and
explores the ramifications of that model for the project of Bildung
in Mann's ""The Magic Mountain"". The second section focuses on
Freud's reading, and the author's own, of Wilhelm Jensen's novella
""Gradiva"", considering the effects of taking classical
archaeology - a key institution in the official culture of Bildung
and the formation of national German identity - as a model for the
formation of individual psychological identity. The first two
sections also consider the impact of the introjected field -
photography and archaeology, respectively - on the conception of
gender and sexuality at stake in Bildung. In the third section, the
author examines Walter Benjamin's ""Berlin Chronicle"" and its use
of photography and archaeology to imagine both the process of
memory and the project of analysis. The final section is an
epilogue that considers the fate of these constellated themes in
the postmodern works of W. G. Sebald, focusing on his novel
""Austerlitz"". The confrontation of photography, archaeology, and
psychoanalysis with nineteenth-century ideals of the self led to
many changes in contemporary literature. Scholars, students, and
teachers of German studies, comparative literature, cultural
studies, and classical studies will appreciate this insightful
volume.
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