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Rituals of dying, burrows of anxiety in Freud, Proust, and Kafka: prolegomena to a critical immunology.(Sigmund Freud; Marcel Proust; Franz Kafka)(Case study)

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From: The Germanic Review
Date: 20070322
Author:Turk, Johannes

ABSTRACT: Drawing on Walter Benjamin's and Sigmund Freud's scattered reflections, the author eleborates a psychic immunology that serves to counteract trauma. In Modernity, he claims, immunity as described by psychoanalysis is a vital property. In rhetorical terms, the textual figure immunity can be described as analeptic prolepsis. The term immunity can make a crucial contribution to literary theory, as textual strategies of paradigmatic Modern narrations are shown to provide antigenes against imminent threats. In his reading of Marcel Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu and ...

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