Daniela Cârstea
Biographic Data
| ID | 6870768 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniela Cârstea |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniela |
| FAMILY NAME | Cârstea |
| SIGNATURE | CÂRSTEA D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bucharest |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8607-1202 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Writing trauma: Aesthetic experience, projection and the mechanics of representation
Edgar Allan Poe’s tales represent one of the most finely-wrought conjurings up of trauma-generated fears in literature. Like the writings of Melanie Klein, Poe’s fiction offers a way of getting inside dread, of writing it, re-creating it, and of transforming it into a beautiful thing. In Klein’s intensely lived dramas of objects transformed through destruction and reparation, dread—of persecutors from outside, of fragmentation from within—is expe…
Literature as transitional object. Between omnipotence and the relinquishing of magic investment
Donald Winnicott’s model of the tolerance for paradox offers a new perspective on Edgar Allan Poe’s pieces of literature and on the fact that ambiguous reference in fiction does not result in its being perceived as meaningless. In the present article, I argue that Edgar Allan Poe’s writings sought to resurrect the satisfying illusion of what Donald Winnicott termed “the transitional phase”. In a sense, literature is the space where remnants of th…
For a Postmodernist Writing in Anthropology
James Clifford’s Partial Truths is an introduction to an anthropological collection of essays, perceived as illustrative of a historical and theoretical movement, of a conceptual shift, consisting in a sharp separation of form from content to its utmost degree, the fetishizing of form. (Carstea 2021: 52) Ethnography, a hybrid activity, thus appears mainly as writing, as collecting. Viewed most broadly, perhaps, it is a mode of travel, a way of un…
A Literary Testimonial to Banal Evil: Dehumanization in The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym
The problematics of trauma and testimony are perforce in a closely-knit relation with the issue of evil, in particular with the strand of evil that made possible the concentration camps in Auschwitz. Edgar Allan Poe’s Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym will be considered as primarily an event of speech, and its testimony as a mode of truth’s realization beyond what is available as statement. What emerges from the comments on Pym, from the explication…
A Literary Testimonial to Banal Evil: Dehumanization in The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym
The problematics of trauma and testimony are perforce in a closely-knit relation with the issue of evil, in particular with the strand of evil that made possible the concentration camps in Auschwitz. Edgar Allan Poe’s Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym will be considered as primarily an event of speech, and its testimony as a mode of truth’s realization beyond what is available as statement. What emerges from the comments on Pym, from the explication…
A Literary Testimonial to Banal Evil: Dehumanization in The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym
The problematics of trauma and testimony are perforce in a closely-knit relation with the issue of evil, in particular with the strand of evil that made possible the concentration camps in Auschwitz. Edgar Allan Poe’s Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym will be considered as primarily an event of speech, and its testimony as a mode of truth’s realization beyond what is available as statement. What emerges from the comments on Pym, from the explication…
Writing trauma: Aesthetic experience, projection and the mechanics of representation
Edgar Allan Poe’s tales represent one of the most finely-wrought conjurings up of trauma-generated fears in literature. Like the writings of Melanie Klein, Poe’s fiction offers a way of getting inside dread, of writing it, re-creating it, and of transforming it into a beautiful thing. In Klein’s intensely lived dramas of objects transformed through destruction and reparation, dread—of persecutors from outside, of fragmentation from within—is expe…
Literature as transitional object. Between omnipotence and the relinquishing of magic investment
Donald Winnicott’s model of the tolerance for paradox offers a new perspective on Edgar Allan Poe’s pieces of literature and on the fact that ambiguous reference in fiction does not result in its being perceived as meaningless. In the present article, I argue that Edgar Allan Poe’s writings sought to resurrect the satisfying illusion of what Donald Winnicott termed “the transitional phase”. In a sense, literature is the space where remnants of th…
For a Postmodernist Writing in Anthropology
James Clifford’s Partial Truths is an introduction to an anthropological collection of essays, perceived as illustrative of a historical and theoretical movement, of a conceptual shift, consisting in a sharp separation of form from content to its utmost degree, the fetishizing of form. (Carstea 2021: 52) Ethnography, a hybrid activity, thus appears mainly as writing, as collecting. Viewed most broadly, perhaps, it is a mode of travel, a way of un…
Art (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Contemporary Literature and Criticism (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Psychoanalysis (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Narrative Theory and Analysis (2 works)