Between-time stories’
Waiting, war and the temporalities of care
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12692128 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lawrence Salisbury (0000-0002-3526-8440, University of Exeter, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 96-106 |
| Publication date | 2020-04-27 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Medical Humanities (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1468-215X • E-ISSN: 1473-4265 |
| Publisher | BMJ (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1136/medhum-2019-011810 |
| PMID | 32341130 |
| OpenAlex | W2999443813 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 19 |
This article analyses how World War II shifted and contained embodied experiences of waiting in relation to broader ideas of lived time in modernity. The trench warfare of World War I has often been imagined as a limit experience of anxious waiting, but World War II produced compelling accounts of experiences of suspended time in civilian populations exposed to the threat and anticipation of 'total war'. This article analyses representations of this suspended present drawn from Elizabeth Bowen and Virginia Woolf, alongside materials in the Mass Observation Archive, to develop an account of how exposure to a future shaped by the potential of annihilation from the air reshaped experiences of durational temporality and the timescapes of modernity in the London Blitz. It also explores the relationship between anxiety, waiting, and care by attending to psychoanalytic theories that developed in the wartime work of Wilfred Bion and Melanie Klein. Extending Freud's account of anxiety as producing 'yet time', this article describes how and why both literary and psychoanalytic texts came to understand waiting and thinking with others as creating the conditions for taking care of the future
Aesthetics · Ancient history · Anticipation (artificial intelligence · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Epistemology · First world war · Memoir · Modernity · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Sociology · Temporalities · Temporality · World War II · Autobiographical and Biographical Writing · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health · History · Irish and British Studies · Law · Philosophy · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 6 |
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| Citations per year | 1,2 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |