| Abstract | In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Notes 1. For reader convenience, I quote from the Hamburger Ausgabe, vol. 6, citing page and occasionally line numbers in the text. 2. Mahlendorf's essay is the first concrete, social-historical and psycho-historical interpretation of this figure as a victim of child abuse. 3. Goethe Yearbook 7:24. Further citations in the text. 4. See my "Feminine Identity Formation in Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre," Modern Language Quarterly 53 (1992): 149-72. 5. Cf. Alfredo Dornheim, "Goethes Mignon und Thomas Manns Echo: Zwei Formen des göttlichen Kindes im deutschen Roman," Euphorion 46 (1952). 6. For source material on trauma, I have consulted: Bessel A. van der Kolk, et al., Traumatic Stress: The Effects of Overwhelming Experience on Mind, Body, and Society (New York: Guilford, 1996); Judith Herman, Trauma and Recovery (New York: Basic Books, 1997); Daniel J. Siegel, The Developing Mind: Toward a Neurobiology of Interpersonal Experience (New York: Guilford, 1999); Jonathan Shay, Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994); J. Laplanche and J.-B. Pontalis, The Language of Psychoanalysis (New York: Norton, 1973 [French, 1967]). References to these studies will appear with the author's name in my text. 7. J. Hillis Miller, "Review Essay: Translating the Untranslatable," Goethe Yearbook 5:270. 8. I use the term "mirroring" here to indicate the state of "merger" with the other and the erasure of boundaries between self and other-a type of pseudo-relationship. 9. See esp. page 252, lines 13-24, in which Eduard describes his mother's reactions to his childhood and adolescent activities. 10. Wolf Kittler, "Goethes Wahlverwandtschaften: Sociale Verhältnisse symbolisch dargestellt," in Goethes Wahlverwandtschaften: Kritische Modelle und Diskursanalysen zum Mythos Literatur, ed. Norbert W. Bolz (Hildesheim: Gerstenberg, 1981) 230-59. 11. See 403-5, esp. 405, lines 1-32. 12. Walter Benjamin, "Goethes Wahlverwandtschaften," in Illuminationen: Ausgewählte Schriften (Frankfurt/Main: Suhrkamp, 1969) 127. 13. Cf. Jochen Hörisch, "'Die Himmelfahrt der bösen Lust' in Goethes 'Wahlverwandtschaften.' Versuch über Ottiliens Anorexie," in Goethes Wahlverwandtschaften: Kritische Modelle und Diskursanalysen zum Mythos Literatur, ed. Norbert W. Bolz (Hildesheim: Gerstenberg, 1981) 308-22. 14. Cathy Caruth, Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative and History (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP), 1996. Copyright © 2004 Goethe Society of North America Project MUSE® - View Citation MLA APA Chicago Endnote Jill Anne Kowalik. "Trauma and Memory in the Wahlverwandtschaften." Goethe Yearbook 12.1 (2004): 129-140. Project MUSE. Web. 25 Jan. 2013. . Kowalik, J. A.(2004). Trauma and Memory in the Wahlverwandtschaften. Goethe Yearbook 12(1), 129-140. North American Goethe Society. Retrieved January 25, 2013, from Project MUSE database. Jill Anne Kowalik. "Trauma and Memory in the Wahlverwandtschaften." Goethe Yearbook 12, no. 1 (2004): 129-140. http://muse.jhu.edu/ (accessed January 25, 2013). TY - JOUR T1 - Trauma and Memory in the Wahlverwandtschaften A1 - Jill Anne Kowalik JF - Goethe Yearbook VL - 12 IS - 1 SP - 129 EP - 140 PY - 2004 PB - North American Goethe Society SN - 1940-9087 UR - http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/goethe_yearbook/v012/12.kowalik.html N1 - Volume 12, 2004 ER - ...
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