The New Wounded and Nonconscious Cognition in Tom McCarthy’s Remainder
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Investigating how Tom McCarthy’s Remainder introduces nonconscious cognition into a literary narrative form, this essay values a critical potentiality of novel that it enacts by adopting the scientific knowledge of nonconsciousness, a type of cognition that operates in the brain and neurones. The novel employs as its narrator a person of the new wounded, who has problems in nonconscious cognitive process due to traumatic brain damage. The damaged function of his nonconsciousness is never supplemented by conscious cognitive process, resulting in the transformation of his self and the loss of the sense of authenticity whose consequence gives him an obsession with repetition and total control. By depicting such trauma symptoms of the new wounded, the novel claims nonconsciousness as a significant element of cognition and self and dispels the traditional belief of metaphysics in the authentic self with authentic feelings, which limits human cognition to consciousness/unconsciousness.
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Investigating how Tom McCarthy’s Remainder introduces nonconscious cognition into a literary narrative form, this essay values a critical potentiality of novel that it enacts by adopting the scientific knowledge of nonconsciousness, a type of cognition that operates in the brain and neurones. The novel employs as its narrator a person of the new wounded, who has problems in nonconscious cognitive process due to traumatic brain damage. The damaged function of his nonconsciousness is never supplemented by conscious cognitive process, resulting in the transformation of his self and the loss of the sense of authenticity whose consequence gives him an obsession with repetition and total control. By depicting such trauma symptoms of the new wounded, the novel claims nonconsciousness as a significant element of cognition and self and dispels the traditional belief of metaphysics in the authentic self with authentic feelings, which limits human cognition to consciousness/unconsciousness.
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