Contents // Preface vii // I. Trauma and Experience // Introduction CATHY CARUTH // 3 // Education and Crisis, or the Vicissitudes of Teaching SHOSHANA FELMAN // 13 // Truth and Testimony: The Process and the Struggle DORI LAUB // 61 // Trauma and Aging: A Thirty-Year Follow-Up HENRY KRYSTAL 76 // Not Outside the Range: One Feminist Perspective on Psychic Trauma // LAURA S. BROWN IOO // Freud: Frontier Concepts, Jewishness, and Interpretation HAROLD BLOOM // 113 // An Interview with Robert Jay Lifton CATHY CARUTH // 128 // V // Contents // IL Recapturing the Past Introduction // CATHY CARUTH // I5I // The Intrusive Past: The Flexibility of Memory and the Engraving of Trauma // BESSEL A. VAN DER KOLK AND ONNO VAN DER HART // 158 // Notes on Trauma and Community // KAI ERIKSON // 183 // The Obscenity of Understanding: An Evening with Claude Lanzmann // CLAUDE LANZMANN 200 // Concerning the Accounts Given by the Residents of Hiroshima // GEORGES BATAILLE 221 // Traumatic Poetry: Charles Baudelaire and the Shock of Laughter // KEVIN NEWMARK // 236 // “The AIDS Crisis Is Not Over”: A Conversation with Gregg Bordowitz, Douglas Crimp, and Laura Pinsky // CATHY CARUTH AND THOMAS KEENAN // 256 // Contributors 275