Introduction

Notes

¹ A close-to-full bibliography exists: see Eddie Yeghiayan's magnificent "Paul de Man bibliography" on-line at http://sun3.lib.uci.edu/~scctr/Wellek/deman/ It may not be complete, but it's impressively thorough.
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² Caruth edited special issues of the psychoanalytic journal American Imago on trauma in 1991; these were republished as a book, Trauma (1995). Caruth has offered her own extended reflections on this topic in her Unclaimed Experience (1996). For Felman's important work on trauma and the Holocaust, see Felman and Laub, Testimony (1992).
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³ For my discussions of de Man as an embodiment of theory, see Phantom Formations, 1-40, and The Politics of Aesthetics, 5-9, 95-124, in addition to my contribution to this special issue. For an example of the habit (which goes back to the late 1970s) of pairing Derrida with de Man and abjecting the latter, see Nealon.
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