Violence : 'mercurial gestalt' / edited by Tobe Levin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Levin, Tobe.

Series:

At the interface/probing the boundaries ; v. 47.

At the interface/probing the boundaries. Cultures of violence.

At the interface : probing the boundaries ; v. 47. Cultures of violence

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nature and nurture.

Violence--Psychological aspects.

Violence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (261 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Mercurial gestalt

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam [Netherlands] ; New York : Rodopi, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

“One afternoon, a patient who had been in three times weekly ... psychotherapy ... left my office after her session, drove down to the train tracks half a mile from my office, and sat down facing an oncoming train.” This tragic event opens the essay by psychoanalyst Susanne Chassay who explores the relationship between private and political terrorism. Her viewpoint complements analyses of violence – that ‘mercurial gestalt’ – by other contributors to this collection derived from a 2003 Cultures of Violence conference held at St. Catherine’s College, Oxford, organized by the Inter-disciplinary Net. From fields as diverse as philosophy, sociology, psychology, history, political science, literary criticism, and forensics, authors consider, for instance, hostility to European minorities; military training and torture; the ‘endemic violence’ aesthetically recorded by Haitian novelists; child abuse in film; female genital mutilation in fiction; or the massacre of Koreans during the 1923 Japanese earthquake. Violence in contact zones in Northern Ireland or in the memory of South African museum directors trying to comply with Truth and Reconciliation Commission mandates is also an object of scrutiny here. Finally, that vexed, primordial issue of violence – nature or nurture? – is probed.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Tobe Levin

Violence: “Mercurial Gestalt” / Tobe Levin

Theories of Violence and the Explanation of Ultra-Violent Behaviour / Patricia Turrisi and Michael J. Shaffer

E Pluribus Unum: European Nationalism or Shopping for Identities in the European Union / Oleg Piletsky

From Soldier to Torturer? Military Training and Moral Agency / Jessica Wolfendale

A Literature of Terror and Mourning / Kaiama L. Glover

Hurtling Toward Darkness Faces of Violence in the Contemporary World / Susanne Chassay

Violence on the Screen: Psychological Perspectives on Child Abuse in American Popular Film 1992-2001 / Larissa N. Niec , Elizabeth V. Brestan and Linda Anne Valle

Creative Writing of FGM as an Act of Violence and Human Rights Abuse / Tobe Levin

Re-Constructing South African Identity after 1994: Museums and Public History / M.K. Flynn and Tony King

Speaking of Contested Sites: Narrative and Praxis of Spatial Competition in Belfast, Northern Ireland / Karen Lysaght

Racism and Violence : Anti-Racist Strategies in Intercultural Contact Zones / Eleonore Wildburger

The Enemy Within: Earthquake, Rumours and Massacre in the Japanese Empire / Jin-hee Lee

When Saviour Becomes Serpent: The Psychology of Police Violence / William Vlach

Gender and Execution in Sunbelt America “Equality in Life Presumes Equality in Death”: / Vivien Miller

Notes on Contributors.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Current Copyright Fee: GBP17.50 0.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

94-012-0065-3

1-4356-5177-4

OCLC:

723943661

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789401200653 DOI