The Memory of Place: A Phenomenology of the Uncanny

Contents

C o n t e n t s ................................... List of Illustrations xi Preface: Touching the Past xiii Acknowledgments xxix Introduction: Phenomenology and Place 1 A Phenomenology of Place 3 Body Memory 9 Embodiment and Phenomenology 13 Placing Phenomenology 17 1. Second Seeing 22 2. The Life-World 23 3. The Uncanny 25 4. Descriptiveness 38 The Phenomenological Method 40 Part One: From Place to Memory 1 Between memory and Imagination 46 Scene and Surrounding 47 The Memory of Place 53 Journeying Toward Slovenia 62 Dreaming of Place 65 Memory as a Rediscovery 67 2 Monuments of Memory 71 From Memory to History 72 Placing Narratives 77 A Phenomenology of the Chattri 80 Memory, Meaning, Materiality 88 A Texture of Death 92 x contents Part Two: From Flesh to Materiality 3 Memories of the Flesh 101 The Lived-Body 102 Inside and Outside 108 The Absolute Here 110 The Memory of Airports 114 Against Non-Places 119 Wild Being 124 Journeying Toward the Service Station 135 Light, Shadow, Texture 142 Anxious Embodiment 148 Alien Flesh 155 4 The Dark Entity 167 Place-Making 169 A Phenomenology of Nostalgia 174 Homesickness 190 Spatial Morphology 198 An Uncanny Return 207 The Dark Entity 219 Part Three: From Black Holes to Specters 5 Traumatic Embodiment 229 The Event Horizon 232 (Re)claiming Experience 236 The Skin of Memory 239 The Phantom Zone 244 6 Ruins of Trauma 257 Abnormal Embodiment 258 Memories of Nightmares 263 Taumatized Materiality 267 A Disturbance of Memory 271 Conclusion: This Place Is Haunted 279 Ghost H(a)unting 279 The Doppelgänger 287 Phantom Memory 293 An Uncanny Mood 299 The Haunting 308 References 327 Index 337 ...