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The Shelter of Philosophy: Repression and Confrontation of the Traumatic Experience in the Works of Sarah Kofman

Cummings, Ashlee Mae
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1248976254

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2009, Master of Arts, Miami University, French.
Sarah Kofman, philosopher and survivor of the Holocaust, contributed to the treatment of the traumatic narrative as something to be feared and suppressed, yet she also broke from this tradition with the writing of her autobiography, Rue Ordener, rue Labat, which detailed the horrors she suffered during the German occupation of France and the aftermath of her father’s death in Auschwitz. This thesis aims to show that while her autobiography was a drastic separation from her previous writings, in which she denies any such telling of a traumatic story is necessary, all of Kofman’s final texts that were written immediately preceding her suicide express a certain urgency with regard to her personal history. This project considers how Kofman treated her autobiography, from paradoxically hiding and showcasing it, to her claims that it didn’t exist outside of her bibliography.
James Creech, PhD (Advisor)
Elisabeth Hodges, PhD (Committee Member)
Sven-Erik Rose, PhD (Committee Member)
70 p.
Literature; Philosophy
Sarah Kofman; Holocaust; autobiography; trauma; Blanchot; Antelme; french philosopher; Dorian Gray; Jewish; Nietzsche; suicide

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  • Cummings, A. M. (2009). The Shelter of Philosophy: Repression and Confrontation of the Traumatic Experience in the Works of Sarah Kofman [Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1248976254

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Cummings, Ashlee. The Shelter of Philosophy: Repression and Confrontation of the Traumatic Experience in the Works of Sarah Kofman. 2009. Miami University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1248976254.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Cummings, Ashlee. "The Shelter of Philosophy: Repression and Confrontation of the Traumatic Experience in the Works of Sarah Kofman." Master's thesis, Miami University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1248976254

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