The trauma controversy : philosophical and interdisciplinary dialogues / edited by Kristen Brown Golden and Bettina G. Bergo.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Golden, Kristen Brown, 1964-

Bergo, Bettina.

Series:

SUNY series in the philosophy of the social sciences

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychic trauma.

Psychoanalysis.

Phenomenological psychology.

Physical Description:

x, 280 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Albany : SUNY Press, [2009]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

A late adventure of the feelings: loss, trauma, and the limits of psychoanalysis / Gregg M. Horowitz

Overcoming the confusion of loss and trauma: the need of thinking historically / Sara Beardsworth

Trauma and speech as bodily adaptation in Merleau-Ponty / Kristen Brown Golden

Trauma and the impossibility of experience / Idit Dobbs-Weinstein

Trauma's presentation / Charles E. Scott

Crime and memory / Judith Lewis Herman

An elephant in the room: the impact of traumatic stress on individuals and groups / Sandra L. Bloom

The snake that bites: the Albanian experience of collective trauma as reflected in an evolving landscape / Michael L. Galaty, Sharon R. Stocker, Charles Watkinson

Traumatic life: violence, pain, and responsiveness in Heidegger / Eric Sean Nelson

Trauma and hysteria: a tale of passions and reversal / Bettina Bergo

Terror's wake: trauma and its subjects / Michael Lambek.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781438428192

1438428197

9781438428208

1438428200

OCLC:

291908018