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Shoshana Felman

Born

in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel

January 29, 1942

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Shoshana Felman is an American literary critic and current Woodruff Professor of Comparative Literature and French at Emory University. She was on the faculty of Yale University from 1970 to 2004, where in 1986 she was awarded the Thomas E. Donnelly Professorship of French and Comparative Literature. She specializes in 19th and 20th century French literature, psychoanalysis, trauma and testimony, and law and literature. Felman earned her Ph.D. at the University of Grenoble in France in 1970.

Felman works in the fields of psychoanalytic literary criticism, performativity theory, feminism, Holocaust testimony, and other areas, though her writings frequently question, ironize, or test the limits of the very critical methods being employed. Ofte ...more

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Average rating: 4.06 · 548 ratings · 35 reviews · 22 distinct works • Similar authors

	Testimony: Crises of Witnessing in Literature, Psychoanalysis, and History by Shoshana Felman, Dori Laub 4.11 avg rating — 185 ratings — published 1991 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Writing and Madness: Literature/Philosophy/Psychoanalysis by Shoshana Felman, Martha Noel Evans (Translator) 3.86 avg rating — 70 ratings — published 1978 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Scandal of the Speaking Body: Don Juan with J. L. Austin, or Seduction in Two Languages by Shoshana Felman, Stanley Cavell, Judith Butler 4.16 avg rating — 64 ratings — published 1980 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jacques Lacan and the Adventure of Insight: Psychoanalysis in Contemporary Culture really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 1987 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	What Does a Woman Want?: Reading and Sexual Difference 4.04 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 1993 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Juridical Unconscious: Trials and Traumas in the Twentieth Century 4.09 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 2002 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Literature and Psychoanalysis: The Question of Reading: Otherwise 3.86 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 1977 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Turning the Screw of Interpretation 4.35 avg rating — 17 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Literary Speech Act: Don Juan With J. L. Austin, or Seduction in Two Languages by Shoshana Felman, Catherine Porter (Translator) 4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1983	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Women and Madness: The Critical Phallacy 3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“I would suggest that what the translator has to give up is the temptation to translate history by making sense of it, that is, by using an apologetic or apocalyptic discourse. What the translator fails to do is to erase the body, to erase the murder of the original.”
― Shoshana Felman, Testimony: Crises of Witnessing in Literature, Psychoanalysis, and History

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