Trauma Controversy

Philosophical and Interdisciplinary Dialogues

AvKristen Brown Golden,Bettina G. Bergo

Inbunden, Engelska, 2009

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Provides multiple and accessible perspectives on trauma both as a condition and as a cultural phenomenon.More than a psychiatric or spiritual condition, trauma is an experience that exceeds the capacity of language to fix and settle it. As trauma crosses the lives of individuals and erupts into cultural and historical collectivities, it invites comparison with psychological dilemmas. But how best to compare individual and social trauma? What is the relationship between physical trauma and psychic trauma? How do cultures recover from trauma? To address these and other questions, the essays in The Trauma Controversy plumb the significance of various notions of trauma from a variety of perspectives and disciplines. Adopting psychoanalytic, clinical, historical, anthropological, and philosophical frameworks as well as engaging the ideas of a diverse range of thinkers, including Merleau-Ponty, Freud, Foucault, Heidegger, and Kristeva, The Trauma Controversy takes a productive and important step in advancing our understanding of trauma.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2009-10-23
Mått:152 x 229 x 23 mm
Vikt:522 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:SUNY series in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences
Antal sidor:290
Förlag:State University of New York Press
ISBN:9781438428192

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Kristen Brown Golden is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Millsaps College and the author of Nietzsche and Embodiment: Discerning Bodies and Non-Dualism, also published by SUNY Press. Bettina G. Bergo is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Université de Montréal. She is author of Levinas between Ethics and Politics: For the Beauty that Adorns the Earth and coeditor (with Jill Stauffer) of Nietzsche and Levinas: "After the Death of a Certain God."

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"Undoubtedly, this volume of essays offers a very interesting and thought-provoking look at trauma research, revealing and discussing the ostensibly resolved problems, which are regarded here from different and unexpected points of view." — H-Net Reviews (H-Ideas)"…a highly thought-provoking collection, with a broad scope, which is destined to become a classic … It will be required reading for those working in Holocaust and Trauma Studies." — The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory"The Trauma Controversy is a remarkable book in that it is not merely a collection of discrete and unrelated essays by significant individual players. Rather, the editors have taken care to cultivate a genuine conversation between various contributors in the volume." — John J. Thatamanil, author of The Immanent Divine: God, Creation, and the Human Predicament

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List of IllustrationsAcknowledgments1. IntroductionKristen Brown Golden and Bettina BergoPART 1. TRAUMA AND THEORETICAL FRAMEWORKS: PSYCHOANALYSIS AND PHENOMENOLOGY2. A Late Adventure of the Feelings: Loss, Trauma, and the Limits of Psychoanalysis Gregg M. Horowitz3. Overcoming the Confusion of Loss and Trauma: The Need of Thinking Historically Sara Beardsworth 4.Trauma and Speech as Bodily Adaptation in Merleau-Ponty Kristen Brown Golden PART 2. TRAUMA AND BODILY MEMORY: POETICS AND NEUROSCIENCE5. Trauma and the Impossibility of Experience Idit Dobbs-Weinstein6.Trauma’s PresentationCharles E. Scott PART 3. TRAUMA AND CLINICAL APPROACHES 7.Crime and MemoryJudith Lewis Herman, M.D.8.An Elephant in the Room: The Impact ofTraumatic Stress on Individuals and GroupsSandra L. Bloom, M.D.PART 4. TRAUMA AND RECENT CULTURAL HISTORY 9.The Snake That Bites: The Albanian Experience of Collective Trauma as Reflected in an Evolving LandscapeMichael L. Galaty, Sharon R. Stocker, and Charles Watkinson10.Traumatic Life: Violence, Pain, and Responsiveness in Heidegger Eric Sean Nelson11.Trauma and Hysteria: A Tale of Passions and ReversalBettina Bergo PART 5. AFTERWORD12.Terror’s Wake: Trauma and Its Subjects Michael LambekList of ContributorsIndex