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The objective of this work is a cultural psychoanalytic reading of nuclear trauma. It is a reading of cultural trauma that seeks an etiology through a back-up-towards, or anasemic reading, of prior significations with a genesis in an event. It will be demonstrated that through a text, Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, read as a carrier of hidden trauma that we can bring to light a legacy of transgenerational phantomatic haunting affecting Americans. This haunting will be shown to reside in nuclear trauma and specifically its role in a redefining of that very human condition: the fear of death. The methodology for this reading examines the text itself— McCarthy’s The Road—as the a symbolic representation of a signifying chain leading to guilt and complicity in nuclear death.
| Advisor: | Golub, Philip |
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| School: | The American University of Paris (France) |
| Department: | International Affairs |
| School Location: | France |
| Source: | MAI 58/03M(E), Masters Abstracts International |
| Source Type: | DISSERTATION |
| Subjects: | American literature, International Relations |
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| Publication Number: | 13833844 |
| ISBN: | 978-0-438-79596-9 |
