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"To grapple with another man's intimate need": trauma-shame interdependency (masochism) in Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim (1900).(Critical Essay)

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From: Conradiana
Date: 20010922
Author:Martin, William A.

Being a milestone of extraordinary modernity, Joseph Conrad's 1900 novel Lord Jim topographies what subsequently became the psychological core of British modernism: trauma and shame. The novel's psychologically oriented criticism engages these most basic of human experiences, in effct, pointing to its own awareness of the psychology and narrative relationship. Despite the intimidating nature of conceptualizing the mountains of analyses already brought forward on the topic, one can loosely parcel them into three groups, namely, the "proto-psychological," (1) the structural and the ...

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