"To grapple with another man's intimate need": trauma-shame interdependency (masochism) in Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim (1900).(Critical Essay)

From: Conradiana | Date: September 22, 2001| Author: Martin, William A. | Copyright information

Being a milestone of extraordinary modernity, Joseph Conrad's 1900 novel Lord Jim topographies what subsequently became the psychological core of British modernism: trauma and shame. The novel's psychologically oriented criticism engages these most basic of human experiences, in effct, pointing to its own awareness of the psychology and narrative relationship. Despite the intimidating nature of conceptualizing the mountains of analyses already brought forward on the topic, one can ...

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