Rituals of Dying, Burrows of Anxiety in Freud, Proust, and Kafka
Prolegomena to a Critical Immunology
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9856747 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Johannes Türk (Indiana University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 82 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 141-156 |
| Publication date | 2007-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Germanic Review Literature Culture Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-8890 • E-ISSN: 1930-6962 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3200/gerr.82.2.141-156 |
| OpenAlex | W2032434811 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 5 |
Drawing on Walter Benjamin's and Sigmund Freud's scattered reflections, the author eleborates a psychic immunology that serves to counteract trauma. In Modernity, he claims, immunity as described by psychoanalysis is a vital property. In rhetorical terms, the textual figure immunity can be described as analeptic prolepsis. The term immunity can make a crucial contribution to literary theory, as textual strategies of paradigmatic Modern narrations are shown to provide antigenes against imminent threats. In his reading of Marcel Proust's Á la recherche du temps perdu and Kafka's Der Bau—authors from the French and the German literary tradition—the author shows how thematic material that, on the surface, seems to deal, in one case with jealousy and in the other with an animal's attempt to secure his burrow, is used to form anxiety as an attempt to anticipate the author's imminent death
Anxiety · Epistemology · Psychiatry · Psychoanalysis · Franz Kafka Literary Studies · Philosophy · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2025 (9) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |