Black Center. The trace of the mother: Paul Celan and Art Spiegelman

Abstract

The text follows the trace of the mother in Paul Celan's poetry and Art Spiegelman's independent comic. Following this trace not only in the explicit representations of the subject, but also in the deeper structures of the works, the text tries to outline, how psychoanalytic diagnostic findings can contribute to a theorie of literary representation of traumata.

Keywords

• Paul Celan
• Art Spiegelman
• Psychoanalytic theory of literature
• poetry
• independent comic
• Shoah
• parental agency
• mother imago
• trauma