Unselfing : : Global French Literature at the Limits of Consciousness / / Michaela Hulstyn.
Altered states of consciousness – including experiences of deprivation, pain, hallucination, fear, desire, alienation, and spiritual transcendence – can transform the ordinary experience of selfhood. Unselfing explores the nature of disruptive self-experiences and the different shapes they have take...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2022] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | University of Toronto Romance Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (278 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Towards a Cognitive-Phenomenological Approach to the Self
- 2. What Is Unselfing?
- 3. Unselfng as Disruption: Self-Knowledge and Pain in Paul Valéry and Charlotte Delbo
- 4. Unselfing as Mutation: Hallucination and the Remains in Henri Michaux and Yolande Mukagasana
- 5. Unselfing as Fragmentation: Languages of Alterity in Abdelkebir Khatibi and Hélène Cixous
- 6. Unselfing as Destruction: Decreation and Inner Experience in Simone Weil and Georges Bataille
- Epilogue: Unselfing and Coming Home
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index