Traumatic reliving in history, literature and film / Rudolph Binion.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Binion, Rudolph, 1927-2011.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychic trauma--History.

Psychic trauma.

Psychohistory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (211 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London : Karnac Books, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Traumatic Reliving in History, Literature, and Film explores an intriguing facet of human behavior never yet examined in its own right - an individual or a group may contrive, unawares, to repeat a half-forgotten traumatic experience in disguise. Such reliving has shaped major careers and large-scale events throughout history. Insight into it is therefore vital for understanding historic causation past and present. Traumatic Reliving has also proliferated in literature since antiquity and lately in film as well, indicating its tacit acceptance as a piece of life by the reading and movie-going public. This book examines the evidence of history, literature, and film on how this irrational behavioral mechanism works.

Contents:

Cover; Copy Right; FOREWORD; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; CHAPTER ONE: Reliving; CHAPTER TWO: Reliving with Freud; CHAPTER THREE: Reliving in history; CHAPTER FOUR: Reliving in history: A closeup; CHAPTER FIVE: Reliving in letters; CHAPTER SIX: Reliving on screen; CHAPTER SEVEN: Reliving: Who, when, why?; REFERENCES

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-429-92332-5

0-429-48432-1

1-283-07091-X

9786613070913

1-84940-716-9

9780429484322

OCLC:

723944121