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The Bilingualism of the Language of the Victim and the Language of the Victimizer.
- Source :
- Psychoanalytic Dialogues; May/Jun2019, Vol. 29 Issue 3, p367-381, 15p
- Publication Year :
- 2019
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Abstract
- Inspired by a panel which took place at the 2018 IARPP conference in New York – this paper, which deals with the bilingualism of the language of the victim and the language of the perpetrator, offers a close reading of the panel's three papers, trying to characterize their unique poetics of testimony through a differentiation between four modes of traumatic testimony which are distinguished from one another by the degree of the psychic motility they succeed to form in relation to traumatic memories: the "metaphoric", the "metonymic", the "excessive" and the "Muselmann" testimonial modes. The last part of the paper suggests a link between the testimonial language of the victim and the testimonial language of the victimizer, trying to understand these polarized languages as two variations of the refusal to mourn. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- LANGUAGE & languages
BILINGUALISM
VARIATION in language
POETICS
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 10481885
- Volume :
- 29
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Psychoanalytic Dialogues
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 137380121
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/10481885.2019.1614827