Und so erzähle ich mir mein Leben. Zum Zusammenhang von Bekenntnisliteratur und Subjektbildung

Benesch, Klaus (2021): Und so erzähle ich mir mein Leben. Zum Zusammenhang von Bekenntnisliteratur und Subjektbildung. In: Zeitschrift für Religions-und Geistesgeschichte, Bd. 73, Nr. 4: S. 291-308

Abstract

This essay traces the interstices of confessional practice and self-writing. Both appear to have originated from an obligation to speak the truth about the self, how and why it has erred, strayed from social conventions, or denied others access to its most intimate thoughts and emotions. Yet while truth-telling - in the Christian tradition of confessio (Glaubensbekenntnis) - ultimately leads to the annihilation of the self, in autobiographical writing the same openness serves to reassure the self of its authenticity and identity. If autobiography can thus be seen as an expression of the formation of the modern `I', it also adopted and transformed non-secular modes of confession. To explore further the close connection between telling/confessing and self-writing, the author discusses two non-autobiographical studies of autobiographical texts: Freud's Psychoanalytische Bemerkungen uber einen autobiographisch beschriebenen Fall von Paranoia and Jacques Derrida's Otobiographies, an essay on Nietzsche's Ecce Homo.

• Dokumententyp: Zeitschriftenartikel
• Fakultät: Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften > Department 3
• Themengebiete: 400 Sprache > 400 Sprache
• ISSN: 0044-3441
• Sprache: Deutsch