Olfa Drid University of Manouba, Tunisia
Abstract
By excavating the psyches and violent behaviors of Joe and Violet
in Jazz, this article aims at unveiling the danger of silencing past traumas-
instead of healing them- which may entail a chain of connected traumas and even
unexpected aberrations that can culminate in violence and murder. Besides, this
study ascribes the violence of the African American community to the
transgenerational trauma of slavery, which caused the pain of Blacks and the
shame of Whites. This paper is therefore
a psychoanalytic reading of the novel based on the trauma theories of Cathy
Caruth, Sigmund Freud, Dominick LaCapra as well as on Nicolas Abraham and Maria
Torok’s theories of “the crypt” and “the phantom”.
Keywords: trauma, belatedness, incubation period, transference,
crypt.
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