?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=The+child+pose+%3A+the+role+of+the+nonhuman+natural+world+in+recovery+from+psychological+trauma&rft.creator=Baldwin%2C+Andrea+R.&rft.subject=Creative+writing&rft.subject=ecowriting&rft.subject=ecocriticism&rft.subject=ecopsychology&rft.subject=ecodynamics&rft.subject=ecological+psychology&rft.subject=ecology&rft.subject=nonhuman+natural+world&rft.subject=nature&rft.subject=coastal+environments&rft.description=This+thesis+by+creative+work+explores+relationships+among+human+beings%2C+the+nonhuman+natural+world+and+language.+It+addresses+the+central+research+question%3A+'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%3F'+The+novel%2C+'The+Child+Pose'%2C+tells+the+story+of+a+woman's+recovery+from+psychological+trauma.+The+thesis+draws+on+the+psychoanalytic+theory+of+Jacques+Lacan%2C+who+saw+the+human+subject+as+fundamentally+split+and+alienated%2C+and+therefore+inherently+vulnerable+to+being+destabilised+by+trauma.+Situating+the+narrative+of+recovery+within+the+emerging+fields+of+ecocriticism+and+ecopsychology%2C+the+research+constructs+psychological+recovery+through+interaction+with+nature+as+a+transformation+of+subjectivity%3A+the+creation+of+a+new%2C+more+stable+and+connected+kind+of+subject%2C+which+Jordan+(2012)+has+called+'the+ecological+subject'.&rft.publisher=Queensland+University+of+Technology&rft.date=2014&rft.type=Thesis&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.relation=https%3A%2F%2Feprints.qut.edu.au%2F74767%2F2%2FAndrea_Baldwin_Thesis.pdf&rft.rights=free_to_read&rft.relation=Baldwin%2C+Andrea+R.+(2014)+The+child+pose+%3A+the+role+of+the+nonhuman+natural+world+in+recovery+from+psychological+trauma.+PhD+by+Creative+Works%2C+Queensland+University+of+Technology.&rft.id_number=https%3A%2F%2Feprints.qut.edu.au%2F74767%2F&rft.identifier=Creative+Industries+Faculty%3B+School+of+Media%2C+Entertainment+%26+Creative+Arts