Interdisciplinary Handbook of Trauma and Culture / edited by Yochai Ataria, David Gurevitz, Haviva Pedaya, Yuval Neria.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ataria, Yochai, Editor.

Gurevitz, David, Editor.

Pedaya, Haviva, editor.

Neria, Yuval, Editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnopsychology.

Clinical psychology.

Psychology.

Cross Cultural Psychology.

Clinical Psychology.

History of Psychology.

Local Subjects:

Cross Cultural Psychology.

Clinical Psychology.

History of Psychology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (395 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2016.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.

Summary:

This lofty volume analyzes a circular cultural relationship; it not only explores how trauma is reflected in cultural processes and products, but also how trauma itself can shape literature, visual and performing arts, architecture, religion, and mythmaking. Analyses of American, Israeli, and Japanese art forms reveal the power of trauma, as reflected in varying roles of perpetrator, victim, and witness. Traumatic complexities are traced through the consideration of spirituality, religion, movement, philosophy, psychology, and trauma theory. Additionally, essays on authors such as Kafka, Plath, and Cormac McCarthy examine how narrative can blur the boundaries of personal and collective experience. Among the topics covered: Television: a traumatic culture. From Hiroshima to Fukushima: comics and animation as subversive agents of memory in Japan The difference between trauma and fear The death of the witness in the era of testimony: Primo Levi and Georges Perec. Sigmund Freud’s Moses and Monotheism and the possibility of writing a traumatic history of religion. Placing collective trauma within its social context: the case of the 9/11 attacks. Killing the killer: rampage and gun rights as a syndrome. This volume appeals to multiple readerships including researchers and clinicians, sociologists, anthropologists, historians, and media researchers. .

Contents:

Introduction

Part I: Representations of Trauma.-Trauma and Literature: The Postmodern Option – Franz Kafka and Cormac Mccarthy

Cultural Trauma and the Media

Television: A Traumatic Culture

Popular Trauma Culture: The Pain of Others Between Holocaust Tropes and Kitsch-Sentimental Melodrama

The Trauma of Modernism: Between Existential Indeterminacy and Allegoresis

Before Recognition: On the Aesthetics of Aftermath

From Hiroshima to Fukushima: Comics and Animation as Subversive Agents of Memory in Japan

Performative Recollection: Koizumi Meiro Representations of Kamikaze Pilots and the Trauma of Asia-Pacific War in Japan

Architecture and Trauma

Art as the Transport-Station of Trauma

Part II: Theory of Trauma

The Trauma of Philosophy

Irresponsible Nonsense: An Epistemological and Ethical Critique of Postmodern Trauma Theory.-The Death of the Witness in the Era of Testimony: Primo Levi and Georges Perec

Walking, Walking Out and Walking Through: Transitional Space and Traumatic Time

Trauma and Monotheism: Sigmund Freud's Moses and Monotheism and the Possibility of Writing a Traumatic History of Religion

The Crisis of Manhood

Laius Complex and Shocks of Maternality: With Franz Kafka and Sylvia Plath

Fear, Trauma, and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Clinical, Neurobiological, and Cultural Perspectives

Part III: Case Studies of Collective Trauma

Some Reflections on Transmitting the Memory of the Holocaust and its Implications, Particularly in Israel

Placing Collective Trauma within its Social Context: the Case of 9/11 Attacks

Masculinity, Spirituality, and Male Wartime Sexual Trauma

Killing the Killer: Rampage and Gun Rights as a Syndrome

Loss, Traumatic Bereavement and Mourning Culture: The Israel Example

Fear and Silence in Burma and Indonesia: Comparing Two National Tragedies and Two Individual Outcomes of Trauma

Conclusion: Trauma and Culture: How Trauma can Shape the Human Mind.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

ISBN:

1-78684-658-6

3-319-29404-0