 | Charles B. Strozier, Michael Flynn - Psychology - 1996 - 326 pages
...psychic disorder. This trend has culminated in the study of "post-traumatic stress disorder," which describes an overwhelming experience of sudden, or...which the response to the event occurs in the often uncontrolled, repetitive occurrence of hallucinations and other intrusive phenomena.1 As it is generally... | |
 | Carl Plasa - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 172 pages
...of Michigan Press, 1969), p. 15. 32 Caruth defines trauma as an 'overwhelming experience of sudden catastrophic events in which the response to the event occurs in the often delayed, uncontrollable repetitive appearance of hallucinations and other intrusive phenomena', p. 1 1. This... | |
 | Jürgen Schlaeger - Emotions - 2000 - 330 pages
...still in agreement with the actual concept of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) which is defined as "an overwhelming experience of sudden or catastrophic...which the response to the event occurs in the often uncontrolled, repetitive appearance of hallucinations and other intrusive phenomena" (Caruth 57). Freud... | |
 | Leigh Gilmore - American prose literature - 2001 - 180 pages
...Caruth offers a general definition of trauma: "trauma describes an overwhelming experience of sudden, catastrophic events, in which the response to the...repetitive occurrence of hallucinations and other intrusive phenomena."20 This definition of trauma fits the experience of war, accidents, acts of violence, and... | |
 | Jonathan D. Culler - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 476 pages
...realms, that is, the peculiar and paradoxical experience of trauma. In its most general definition, trauma describes an overwhelming experience of sudden,...repetitive occurrence of hallucinations and other intrusive phenomena.2 The experience of the soldier faced with sudden and massive death around him, for example,... | |
 | Jenny Edkins - Architecture - 2003 - 292 pages
...grasp when we call an experience 'traumatic' in a non-trivial sense? According to Cathy Caruth . . . trauma describes an overwhelming experience of sudden,...repetitive occurrence of hallucinations and other intrusive phenomena.73 In Maurice Blanchot's words, trauma is 'the disaster, unexperienced. It is what escapes... | |
 | Felicity Collins, Therese Davis - Performing Arts - 2004 - 220 pages
...image, the defacement of 'Mabo' takes the form of a traumatic experience. Cathy Caruth defines trauma as 'an overwhelming experience of sudden, or catastrophic...response to the event occurs in the often delayed, and uncontrollable repetitive occurrence of hallucinations and other intrusive phenomena'.35 On several... | |
 | Ruth-Ellen Boetcher Joeres, Marjorie Gelus - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 278 pages
...has suggested, is by definition not linear and directly referential (11). The narrative of trauma, as "an overwhelming experience of sudden or catastrophic...response to the event occurs in the often delayed, uncontrolled repetitive appearance of hallucinations and other intrusive phenomena" (11), was most... | |
 | Marlene Goldman - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 236 pages
...chapter, theorists have much to say about the complex features of trauma: in its most general definition, trauma describes "an overwhelming experience of sudden...response to the event occurs in the often delayed, uncontrolled, repetitive appearance of hallucinations and other intrusive phenomena" (Caruth, Unclaimed... | |
 | Martina Ghosh-Schellhorn, Vera Alexander - East Indian diaspora - 2006 - 308 pages
...writing of trauma implies return and repetition. "In its most general definition", writes Cathy Caruth, "trauma describes an overwhelming experience of sudden...response to the event occurs in the often delayed, uncontrolled repetitive appearance of hallucinations and other intrusive phenomena" (Unclaimed Experience... | |
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In its most general definition, trauma describes an overwhelming experience of sudden or catastrophic events in which the response to the event occurs in the often delayed, uncontrolled repetitive appearance of hallucinations and other intrusive phenomena. 