Trauma and human existence : autobiographical, psychoanalytic, and philosophical reflections / Robert D. Stolorow.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stolorow, Robert D.

Series:

Psychoanalytic inquiry book series ; v. 23.

Psychoanalytic inquiry book series ; v. 23

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychic trauma.

Context effects (Psychology).

Psychoanalysis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (69 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Taylor & Francis, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Trauma and Human Existence effectively interweaves two themes central to emotional trauma - the first pertains to the contextuality of emotional life in general, and of the experience of emotional trauma in particular, and the second pertains to the recognition that the possibility of emotional trauma is built into the basic constitution of human existence.This volume traces how both themes interconnect, largely as they crystallize in the author's personal experience of traumatic loss. As discussed in the book's final chapter, whether or not this constitutive possibility wil

Contents:

Front cover; Trauma and Human Existence; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; 1. The Contextuality of Emotional Life; 2. The Contextuality of Emotional Trauma; 3. The Phenomenology of Trauma and the Absolutisms of Everyday Life; 4. Trauma and Temporality; 5. Trauma and the "Ontological Unconscious"; 6. Anxiety, Authenticity, and Trauma; 7. Conclusions: Siblings in the Same Darkness; Notes; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-136-87311-2

1-281-12268-8

9786611122683

1-136-87312-0

0-203-83780-0

1-4200-6998-5

9780203837801

OCLC:

166141711