Gabriele Schwab
Biographic Data
| ID | 3699856 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gabriele Schwab |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gabriele |
| FAMILY NAME | Schwab |
| SIGNATURE | SCHWAB G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Irvine |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9827-6894 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Freud’s Moses: Murder, Exile, and the Question of Belonging
This chapter traces the manifold rewritings, transgenerational legacies and histories of reception of the Moses story. Focusing on Freud’s main interpretive moves in Moses and Monotheism , it analyzes his scrupulous attempts to provide evidence that Moses was of Egyptian origin as well as the connections he then makes between patricide, imperialism, and monotheism. Freud’s insistence that the Jewish people not only murdered Moses, but also added …
Poetik und Hermeneutik im Rückblick: Interviews mit Beteiligten
Die interdisziplinäre Forschungsgruppe »Poetik und Hermeneutik« und ihre Mitglieder haben die geistes- und kulturwissenschaftliche Landschaft der alten Bundesrepublik geprägt wie vielleicht sonst nur noch die Kritische Theorie. Zahlreiche Interviews mit den wichtigsten noch lebenden Akteuren erlauben einen ebenso erkenntnisreichen wie unterhaltsamen Blick hinter die Kulissen von Poetik & Hermeneutik. Unter welchen Bedingungen und mit welchen Absi…
Unofficial Wars: The Politics of Disappearance
This article examines Michael Ondaatje’s 2001 novel Anil’s Ghost , placing it within the context of a history of disappearance as a form of state terrorism on a global level. It contests the controversial response that Ondaatje’s work received, which alleged lack of political engagement in the novel on account of what critics saw as its ‘Westernised approach’. Instead, what is argued here is that Anil’s Ghost presents a particular form of ‘workin…
Clones, Fakes and Posthumans: Cultures of Replication
Die Verletzbarkeit des Menschen: Folter und die Politik der Affekte
Folter muss heute als eine beabsichtigte Traumatisierung verstanden werden. Gezielt nutzt sie das aus, was Gesellschaften möglich macht: die basale Offenheit und Verletzbarkeit des Menschen. In ihrer Verweigerung von Empathie zielt ihre Gewalt darauf, Affekte auszulösen, die nicht mehr sozial gebunden werden können. So kettet sie die Betroffenen dauerhaft an sich. Diese gewaltsame Politik der Affekte betrifft nicht nur die Opfer und die Täter, so…
Replacement Children: The Transgenerational Transmission of Traumatic Loss
Interweaving a close reading of Philippe Grimbert's memoir, Secret , with an autobiographical narrative, this paper examines the psychology of the "replacement child" as a widespread response to the traumatic loss of a child after a violent historical event. The death of a child is always a wound and an outrage, an improper death, a death that haunts parents, siblings, and sometimes entire communities. Parents are unconsciously compelled to try t…
Accelerating possession: Global futures of property and personhood
Political and Psychic Economies of Accelerating Possession, by Bill Maurer and Gabriele SchwabPart I. Histories, Nations, Institutions1. Self and My Own: and the Same?, by Etienne Balibar2. The Future of Nationalist Appropriation, by Pheng Cheah3. Transnational Topographies of Power: Beyond 'The State' and 'Civil Society' in the Study of African Politics, by James G. Ferguson4. Mercantilism, by Federalism Part II. Posthuman Futures: Literature, A…
Writing against Memory and Forgetting
Writing against Memory and Forgetting Gabriele Schwab (bio) Holes and gaps are so central in narrative fiction because the materials the text provides for the reconstruction of a world (or a story) are insufficient for saturation. Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan, Narrative Fiction: Contemporary Poetics Stories are told to register a truth that cannot be found in the simple telling of facts. Sue Grand, The Reproduction of Evil For to end yet again skull alo…
Haunting legacies: Trauma in Children of Perpetrators
This personal account is the author's attempt to come to terms with the traumatic effects of growing up among the generation of German children born after World War II. Drawing on Abraham & Torok's (1994) theory of transgenerational haunting, Schwab argues that her generation suffers from a trauma handed down from its parents. Upon returning to her home town in Germany, Schwab is shocked to discover that it once contained a thriving Jewish commun…
Deleuze/Derrida: The Politics of Territoriality
(2003). Deleuze/Derrida: The Politics of Territoriality. Critical Horizons: Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 147-156
The Writing Lesson: Imaginary Inscriptions in Cultural Encounters
This article takes a moment of intercultural exchange, first reported as "The Writing Lesson" by Claude Lévi-Strauss in Tristes Tropiques and later explored by Jacques Derrida in Of Grammatology, as the occasion for further reflection on the role played by the aesthetic in what it terms intercultural transference. Transference occurs whenever unconscious desires, fantasies or patterns of being and relating are enacted in an interpersonal or inter…
Cultural Texts and Endopsychic Scripts
SubStance - Issue 94/95 (Volume 30, Number 1&2), 2001
Cosmographical Meditations on the In/Human: Beckett's The Lost Ones and Lyotard's 'Scapeland
(2000). Cosmographical Meditations on the In/Human: Beckett's The Lost Ones and Lyotard's 'Scapeland' Parallax: Vol. 6, To Jean-Francois Lyotard, pp. 58-75
If only I were not obliged to manifest: Iser's Aesthetics of Negativity
New Literary History - Volume 31, Number 1, Winter 2000
Words and Moods: The Transference of Literary Knowledge
THE EPIGRAPHS CHOSEN TO INTRODUCE THIS ESSAY on literary transference posit the existence of unspoken or wordless worlds, unformulated spaces that we cannot access directly, but that nonetheless shape us and form part of our utterances. Tracing the formation of such spaces back to early infancy, Christopher Bollas argues that the modes in which an infant is received and cared for, and the ways in which its earliest sensory experiences are stimula…
On the Dialectic of Closing and Opening in Samuel Beckett's End-game
Genesis of the Subject, Imaginary Functions, and Poetic Language
T L T HE WORD is not a thing, but the ever-moving, everchanging medium of dialogical intercourse. A single consciousness, a single voice, is never sufficient. The life of the consists in passing from mouth to mouth, from context to context, from collective to collective, from generation to generation. ... Every member of a speech-collective ... receives the from an alien voice, is filled up with this alien voice. The comes into a context from ano…
The Subject Genesis, the Imaginary and the Poetical Language
I am, but I do not own myself"-this famous formula of Plessner conceives man as an excentric subject, i.e. a being who can never dominate and dispose of himself as a whole. If we add to Plessner's dictum Bloch's answer to it: "I am. But I do not own myself. Therefore we are still becoming" then we are already suggesting the anthropological space of the imaginary; because the ability to imagine something that is not, plays an essential role in thi…
Replacement Children: The Transgenerational Transmission of Traumatic Loss
Interweaving a close reading of Philippe Grimbert's memoir, Secret , with an autobiographical narrative, this paper examines the psychology of the "replacement child" as a widespread response to the traumatic loss of a child after a violent historical event. The death of a child is always a wound and an outrage, an improper death, a death that haunts parents, siblings, and sometimes entire communities. Parents are unconsciously compelled to try t…
Haunting legacies: Trauma in Children of Perpetrators
This personal account is the author's attempt to come to terms with the traumatic effects of growing up among the generation of German children born after World War II. Drawing on Abraham & Torok's (1994) theory of transgenerational haunting, Schwab argues that her generation suffers from a trauma handed down from its parents. Upon returning to her home town in Germany, Schwab is shocked to discover that it once contained a thriving Jewish commun…
If only I were not obliged to manifest: Iser's Aesthetics of Negativity
New Literary History - Volume 31, Number 1, Winter 2000
On the Dialectic of Closing and Opening in Samuel Beckett's End-game
The Subject Genesis, the Imaginary and the Poetical Language
I am, but I do not own myself"-this famous formula of Plessner conceives man as an excentric subject, i.e. a being who can never dominate and dispose of himself as a whole. If we add to Plessner's dictum Bloch's answer to it: "I am. But I do not own myself. Therefore we are still becoming" then we are already suggesting the anthropological space of the imaginary; because the ability to imagine something that is not, plays an essential role in thi…
On the Dialectic of Closing and Opening in Samuel Beckett's End-game
Genesis of the Subject, Imaginary Functions, and Poetic Language
T L T HE WORD is not a thing, but the ever-moving, everchanging medium of dialogical intercourse. A single consciousness, a single voice, is never sufficient. The life of the consists in passing from mouth to mouth, from context to context, from collective to collective, from generation to generation. ... Every member of a speech-collective ... receives the from an alien voice, is filled up with this alien voice. The comes into a context from ano…
Words and Moods: The Transference of Literary Knowledge
THE EPIGRAPHS CHOSEN TO INTRODUCE THIS ESSAY on literary transference posit the existence of unspoken or wordless worlds, unformulated spaces that we cannot access directly, but that nonetheless shape us and form part of our utterances. Tracing the formation of such spaces back to early infancy, Christopher Bollas argues that the modes in which an infant is received and cared for, and the ways in which its earliest sensory experiences are stimula…
Cosmographical Meditations on the In/Human: Beckett's The Lost Ones and Lyotard's 'Scapeland
(2000). Cosmographical Meditations on the In/Human: Beckett's The Lost Ones and Lyotard's 'Scapeland' Parallax: Vol. 6, To Jean-Francois Lyotard, pp. 58-75
If only I were not obliged to manifest: Iser's Aesthetics of Negativity
New Literary History - Volume 31, Number 1, Winter 2000
Cultural Texts and Endopsychic Scripts
SubStance - Issue 94/95 (Volume 30, Number 1&2), 2001
Deleuze/Derrida: The Politics of Territoriality
(2003). Deleuze/Derrida: The Politics of Territoriality. Critical Horizons: Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 147-156
The Writing Lesson: Imaginary Inscriptions in Cultural Encounters
This article takes a moment of intercultural exchange, first reported as "The Writing Lesson" by Claude Lévi-Strauss in Tristes Tropiques and later explored by Jacques Derrida in Of Grammatology, as the occasion for further reflection on the role played by the aesthetic in what it terms intercultural transference. Transference occurs whenever unconscious desires, fantasies or patterns of being and relating are enacted in an interpersonal or inter…
Haunting legacies: Trauma in Children of Perpetrators
This personal account is the author's attempt to come to terms with the traumatic effects of growing up among the generation of German children born after World War II. Drawing on Abraham & Torok's (1994) theory of transgenerational haunting, Schwab argues that her generation suffers from a trauma handed down from its parents. Upon returning to her home town in Germany, Schwab is shocked to discover that it once contained a thriving Jewish commun…
Accelerating possession: Global futures of property and personhood
Political and Psychic Economies of Accelerating Possession, by Bill Maurer and Gabriele SchwabPart I. Histories, Nations, Institutions1. Self and My Own: and the Same?, by Etienne Balibar2. The Future of Nationalist Appropriation, by Pheng Cheah3. Transnational Topographies of Power: Beyond 'The State' and 'Civil Society' in the Study of African Politics, by James G. Ferguson4. Mercantilism, by Federalism Part II. Posthuman Futures: Literature, A…
Writing against Memory and Forgetting
Writing against Memory and Forgetting Gabriele Schwab (bio) Holes and gaps are so central in narrative fiction because the materials the text provides for the reconstruction of a world (or a story) are insufficient for saturation. Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan, Narrative Fiction: Contemporary Poetics Stories are told to register a truth that cannot be found in the simple telling of facts. Sue Grand, The Reproduction of Evil For to end yet again skull alo…
Replacement Children: The Transgenerational Transmission of Traumatic Loss
Interweaving a close reading of Philippe Grimbert's memoir, Secret , with an autobiographical narrative, this paper examines the psychology of the "replacement child" as a widespread response to the traumatic loss of a child after a violent historical event. The death of a child is always a wound and an outrage, an improper death, a death that haunts parents, siblings, and sometimes entire communities. Parents are unconsciously compelled to try t…
Die Verletzbarkeit des Menschen: Folter und die Politik der Affekte
Folter muss heute als eine beabsichtigte Traumatisierung verstanden werden. Gezielt nutzt sie das aus, was Gesellschaften möglich macht: die basale Offenheit und Verletzbarkeit des Menschen. In ihrer Verweigerung von Empathie zielt ihre Gewalt darauf, Affekte auszulösen, die nicht mehr sozial gebunden werden können. So kettet sie die Betroffenen dauerhaft an sich. Diese gewaltsame Politik der Affekte betrifft nicht nur die Opfer und die Täter, so…
Clones, Fakes and Posthumans: Cultures of Replication
Unofficial Wars: The Politics of Disappearance
This article examines Michael Ondaatje’s 2001 novel Anil’s Ghost , placing it within the context of a history of disappearance as a form of state terrorism on a global level. It contests the controversial response that Ondaatje’s work received, which alleged lack of political engagement in the novel on account of what critics saw as its ‘Westernised approach’. Instead, what is argued here is that Anil’s Ghost presents a particular form of ‘workin…
Poetik und Hermeneutik im Rückblick: Interviews mit Beteiligten
Die interdisziplinäre Forschungsgruppe »Poetik und Hermeneutik« und ihre Mitglieder haben die geistes- und kulturwissenschaftliche Landschaft der alten Bundesrepublik geprägt wie vielleicht sonst nur noch die Kritische Theorie. Zahlreiche Interviews mit den wichtigsten noch lebenden Akteuren erlauben einen ebenso erkenntnisreichen wie unterhaltsamen Blick hinter die Kulissen von Poetik & Hermeneutik. Unter welchen Bedingungen und mit welchen Absi…
Freud’s Moses: Murder, Exile, and the Question of Belonging
This chapter traces the manifold rewritings, transgenerational legacies and histories of reception of the Moses story. Focusing on Freud’s main interpretive moves in Moses and Monotheism , it analyzes his scrupulous attempts to provide evidence that Moses was of Egyptian origin as well as the connections he then makes between patricide, imperialism, and monotheism. Freud’s insistence that the Jewish people not only murdered Moses, but also added …
Philosophy (14 works) · Art (12 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Aesthetics (7 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Psychoanalysis (7 works) · Linguistics (6 works) · Literature (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works)