...the incomprehensibility of one's near death, but the very incomprehensibility of one's own survival. Repetition, in other words, is not simply the attempt...enigmatically, the very attempt to claim one's own survival If history is to be understood as the history of a trauma, it is a history that is experienced as the...

...uncontrolled return of an undigested experience, is an attempt to make sense of survival: "Repetition ... is not simply the attempt to grasp that one has almost...enigmatically, the very attempt to claim one's own survival. ... the endless attempt to assume one's survival as one's own."27 Semprun confronts for the first time...

...the incomprehensibility of one's near death, but the very incomprehensibility of one's own survivai. Repetition, in other words, is not simply the attempt...fundamentally and enigmatically, the very attempt to claim one 's own survivai. If history is to be understood äs the history of a trauma, it is a history that...

...repetition is, then, partly an attempt to come to terms with one's unthinkable survival: "Repetition [...] is not simply the attempt to grasp that one has almost...enigmatically, the very attempt to claim one's own survivor (Caruth 1996,64). The testimonies offered in Mesure de nos jours repeatedly testify to the...

...violence; it is also a way of getting through its effects that remain. Caruth argues that repetition "is not simply the attempt to grasp that one has almost...enigmatically, the very attempt to claim one's own survival" (64 original emphasis). Federman claims his own survival through accounting for himself, and through...