Introduction to Jean-Jacques Blévis’s “Remains to Be Transmitted: Primo Levi’s Traumatic Dream”

Simpson, Richard B.

doi:10.1002/j.2167-4086.2004.tb00176.x

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The Coalescence Of Trauma: a Recent Debate1

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“…In an introduction to Blévis's article, Simpson (2004) advised the reader to put Agamben's views in perspective with another of his works, Homo Sacer, Sovereign Power and Bare Life (Agamben 1998). Following this advice, I find little, however, to alleviate concern.…”

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Primo Levi’s Loneliness: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Suicide-Nearness

Titelman

2006

The Psychoanalytic Quarterly

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To elucidate suicide-nearness, the perspectives of the death drive and narcissism are applied to the writings of Primo Levi. Emerging themes are Levi's struggle to maintain his self-regard from his year as a prisoner in Auschwitz and onward, and his observations on xenophobia, violence, and the need for love. The gradual increase of depressive content in Levi's work is noted, as are his identifications with others who succumbed in the Holocaust or took their lives after surviving it. The conflict between the wish for peace and the need for love is seen as impossible to resolve under the threat of extermination and as reemerging in the prevailing sense of loneliness that Levi described.

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Section: The Coalescence Of Trauma: a Recent Debatementioning

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Primo Levi’s Loneliness: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Suicide-Nearness

Titelman

2006

The Psychoanalytic Quarterly

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Introduction to Jean-Jacques Blévis’s “Remains to Be Transmitted: Primo Levi’s Traumatic Dream”

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