| Shared Traumas, Silent Loss, Public and Private Mourning Contributor(s): Auestad, Lene (Author) |
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ISBN: 036710170X ISBN-13: 9780367101701 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $178.13 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Movements - Psychoanalysis - Philosophy | Political - Psychology | Mental Health |
| Dewey: 320.019 |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 6.2" W x 9.1" (1.35 lbs) 230 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book questions the junctions of the private and the public when it comes to trauma, loss, and the work of mourning - notions which, it is argued, challenge our very ideas of the individual and the shared. It asks, to paraphrase Adorno, 'What do we mean by "working through the past"?, 'How is a shared work of mourning to be understood?', and 'With what legitimacy do we consider a particular social or cultural practice to be "mourning"?' Rather than aiming to present a diagnosis of the political present, this volume instead takes one step back to pose the question of what mourning might mean and what its social dimension consists in. Contributors reflect on the trauma of the Holocaust, the after-effects of the Vietnam War in the US, the Lebanese war-torn experience, victims of the Pacific War in Taiwan, and the Chilean dictatorship. |
Contributor Bio(s): Auestad, Lene: - Lene Auestad is Research Fellow in Philosophy at the University of Oslo, and affiliated with the Centre for Studies of the Holocaust and Religious Minorities, Oslo. She moved to the UK to pursue long-standing interests in British psychoanalysis. Working at the interface of psychoanalytic thinking and ethics/political theory, her writing has focused on the themes of emotions, prejudice and minority rights. Recent articles have included "To Think or Not To Think" in the Journal of Social and Psychological Sciences and "Splitting, Attachment and Instrumental Rationality" in Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society. |