Traumatic Cultural Memory and Therapeutic Literary Imagination
This thesis makes a comparative study of two internationally acclaimed texts of Holocaust literature,American Jewish writer Issac Beshevis Singer's Enemies,A Love Story and German writer Bernhard Schlink's The Reader,exploring the Literary Imaginary Presentation of the History of the Nazi Holocaust under the Mech-anism of Trauma Operations.The trauma theory is based on psychoanalysis and sociology,with a focus on ob-serving the collective unconscious historical access mode or obsessive-compulsive individual memory mecha-nism,which can provide new perspectives,methods,and insights for us to understand the multiple entangled relationships between history and reality,memory and forgetting,silence and voice,trauma and creation.Both texts depict the physical and mental trauma suffered by individuals in historical disasters,revealing the trau-matic effects experienced by the Jewish and German nations during the Holocaust.The trauma of the Nazi Hol-ocaust is both an individual expression and a complex social construction.Both texts examine and reflect on the social psychology and cultural trends of virtues in the post-Holocaust era from different perspectives and di-mensions,especially the identity anxiety of American Jews,the progressive and tragic narrative of American society,the collective shame of Germans,and the widespread skepticism of traditional religion and moral phi-losophy in European and American cultures.Whether in the past,present,or future,facing various individual and collective traumas caused by religious,political,cultural hatred and conflicts,negotiating,dialogue,con-sultation,and cooperation between different cultural groups may be the most prudent,desirable,and construc-tive cultural choice and participation.
Cultural MemoryTraumaSkepticismHolocaust LiteratureEnemies,A Love StoryThe Reader
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