Review article
The Lost Temporality of Spinal Catastrophism – The Spine as a Memory Trace or Archive of (Deep) Time
Jurica Grgić
Abstract
The theory of spinal catastrophism is an attempt to create an exploratory continuity between, on the one hand, the peculiarities of human psychology, our pathologies, psychoneuroses, the things we experience in the most intimate way, and on the other hand, things from a more distant past - a past that in this case is conceived as the history of the Earth, or even as cosmic history. The text explores these themes through scientific, psychoanalytic and literary examples, relying on a romantic literary understanding of experiences that became available in the midst of the industrial revolution, and through the idea of regression, which appears as part of the romantic approach to the mind, and in which we can locate a particular romantic version of spinal catastrophism.
Keywords
spinal catastrophism, geotrauma, neuroanatomy, deep time, depth as memory, genealogy, romanticism, E.T.A. Hoffmann; Novalis; J.G. Ballard; Sándor Ferenczi; theory of recapitulation
Hrčak ID:
319779
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Publication date:
25.7.2024.
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