Trauma and other parts of the theory will be explained by looking at what happened in Proust's past. The first two volumes, Swann's Way and In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower, are parts of Proust's famous work In Search of Lost Time, which will be the focal point of this thesis. I will also discuss psychoanalytic theory to connect the idea of memory in light of the primary resources.
It refers to the view of time as it is at that very moment. In the child's imagination there is no such thing as self or other. In the original occurrence itself, it was not traumatic, but only in its memory.
Trauma is formed in the subconscious as repressed feelings emerge from the defense mechanisms. In the journal article "The Creative Transformation of Trauma Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time," Harold P. In the journal article, "The Poetics of Domestic Space in Proust's In Search of Lost Time," author Juliette De Soto explains most of Marcel 's important memories from his childhood in Combray conjured up in his bedroom.
This is why he is so obsessed with time and feels he does not belong in the world (51).
Phenomenology
Practicing phenomenological reduction, also known as epoche, requires us to suspend all preconceptions and judgments when approaching a phenomenon. The experience of a phenomenon is essential when it is reduced to its most basic form. One could experience a storm and it would make no difference whether the storm took place in the actual world or his fantasy world.
Smith portrays that Husserl does not need to focus on the subject if it has any relation to the real world or not, but he must consider whether that subject has a relation to the real world because we cannot imagine something that is not available to us is not. . For example, if I have no knowledge of the presence of water, I will not be able to think of it (39). After going through the bracketing process, the phenomena will have a more refined form than before.
In this method, the phenomenologist tries to control all the possible characteristics of the phenomenon to determine its fundamental essence, such as happiness or fear, and then applies the eidetic reduction (Ideas, Husserl, 1967, 12). The characteristics of this pleasure or this fear can be reduced to their essence through the use of imaginary variation. In this way, according to Husserl, the exploration of the raw meaning of emotions such as happiness and fear is carried out.
He also speaks of phenomenological reduction, something that must be inquired about without preconception in order to get the pure essence of eidetic reduction (705). In the book, Swann's Way, Marcel Proust wrote, "...the world inhabited by Odette was not that other terrifying and supernatural world where he spent his time tracking her down and which perhaps only in his imagination existed, but Moreover, Swann's feeling of grief is reduced to its pure essence to specify whether the feeling occurs in the imagination or the real world.
Proust expresses, "...the presence of one of those invisible realities in which he has ceased to believe and which he, as if the music had had a kind of sympathetic influence on the moral dryness from which he suffered , felt in himself again. the desire and almost the strength to devote his life" (Proust refers to the reality of fantasy or the raw feeling of fantasy that almost felt like reality. Despite its anchoring in the real world, music has a strong ability to to inspire the imagination.
Phenomenology and Time-Consciousness
Death and Time
He talked about death being experienced in a subjective manner rather than objectively appearing real. There is a great deal of chance in all this, and a second kind of chance, that of our death, often does not make us wait very long for the favors of the first (111). He emphasizes the first death before the second death which is the actual conventional death.
The first death can be a metaphor for a death of a memory, a dream, a hope or a part of the self. The first death does not come visibly, it only appears and it cannot be remembered according to worldly time or objective duration. She says, unlike the conscious kind, it takes place over a very short period of time - a few months to a few years.
Memory lasts long after physical death, meaning that death can happen unconsciously, but memories live on in consciousness long after death. Therefore, psychic death has nothing to do with the physical world, and as objective time passes, a person dies physically due to the continuous flow of time.
Time and Experience
And that immediately tells us that it belongs to one endless 'stream of consciousness'. Edmund Husserl points out that every experience, like the feeling of happiness, has a beginning and an end, but the flow of experiences never stops. If the ego wants to, it can pay attention to this experience and see it as real or as a phenomenological counterbalance.
Therefore, experience in its rawest form meets man's pure ego, and the ego can choose whether it wants to be aware of object or time; otherwise, he simply lets the feeling flow as any experience flows on the phenomenological meter. As temporary objects pass by over time, we experience different feelings such as happiness or sadness in those moments, which is called "stream of consciousness". Thus, the "stream of consciousness" aligns with the "stream of experience" through time (subjective/objective) and personal encounters.
In Swann's Way, Marcel Proust stated, “On a sort of screen, sprinkled with the various states of mind which my consciousness would reveal upon the same thing as I was reading it…” (170). Proust explained it in its most crude form, claiming that his consciousness unfolded the same thing he had read.
Psychoanalytic Theory
- Oedipus Complex
- Lacan (mirror-stage)
- Trauma
- Memory
In the book Beginning Theory: An Introduction To Literary And Cultural Theory, Peter Barry shows that the Oedipus complex is what Freud called a boy's early desire to get rid of his father and have a sexual relationship with his mother. For example, a person may do something from the conscious mind, but the cause of the cause may lie in the unconscious mind. The structures and shapes in the image constitute the ego, and the ego constitutes the representation (115).
His actions and need are indicators that he is still in the mirror of his maturity. In an article in the journal "Freud's Ethics and the Idea of Reason," Philip Rieff states that if the psyche was largely thought of as the self-consciousness, Freud assumed that most of the psyche must be formed from within the unconscious. Furthermore, trauma occurs in the unconscious mind and is dependent on consciousness, which we must acknowledge in our psychic activity.
In the novel In search of lost time, Marcel Proust's memory and hidden trauma play a greater role. He tries to remember the taste and the time in the past when he smelled the tea. In the story, asthmatics gasping for breath are replaced with steaming tea and a tiny madeleine.
In the novels Proust talked about his memory which can be interpreted in different ways. In the journal article, "The Poetics of Domestic Space in Proust's In Search of Lost Time", author Juliette De Soto describes Marcel spending a lot of time reminiscing about his early life in Combray in his bedroom. Dr.
He agrees with Freud that the senses are "memory traces" that are stored in the memory. In the way Proust dreams and wakes, his sense of the past matches his memories, reviving them raw from the subconscious. Casey adds, "... the past need not be packaged into a prescribed form of representational memories" (XXI).
In the book "In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower" Proust depicted the reality of people in a certain time. In the novel, Proust talked about a similar thing again and again, but from various perspectives.
Conclusion
Primary Resources
Secondary Resources
The Creative Transformation of Trauma: Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time.” The Psychoanalytic Review, vol. Proust configures time, space and memory to reveal Marcel's artistry in Swann's way." International Journal of Language & Linguistics, vol. Remembering, Second Edition: A Phenomenological Study (Studies in Continental Thought). General Introduction to Pure Phenomenology. First edition, 2nd printing edition).
