The child pose : the role of the nonhuman natural world in recovery from psychological trauma
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Andrea Baldwin Thesis
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Description
This thesis by creative work explores relationships among human beings, the nonhuman natural world and language. It addresses the central research question: 'How can a novel embody a narrative of recovery from psychological trauma in which recovery is primarily a function of the character's subjective interaction with nature?' The novel, 'The Child Pose', tells the story of a woman's recovery from psychological trauma. The thesis draws on the psychoanalytic theory of Jacques Lacan, who saw the human subject as fundamentally split and alienated, and therefore inherently vulnerable to being destabilised by trauma. Situating the narrative of recovery within the emerging fields of ecocriticism and ecopsychology, the research constructs psychological recovery through interaction with nature as a transformation of subjectivity: the creation of a new, more stable and connected kind of subject, which Jordan (2012) has called 'the ecological subject'.
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ID Code: | 74767 |
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Item Type: | QUT Thesis (PhD by Creative Works) |
Supervisor: | Neilsen, Philip & Thomas, Glen |
Keywords: | Creative writing, ecowriting, ecocriticism, ecopsychology, ecodynamics, ecological psychology, ecology, nonhuman natural world, nature, coastal environments |
Divisions: | Past > QUT Faculties & Divisions > Creative Industries Faculty Past > Schools > School of Media, Entertainment & Creative Arts |
Institution: | Queensland University of Technology |
Deposited On: | 29 Aug 2014 04:36 |
Last Modified: | 08 Sep 2017 14:48 |
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