Shared Traumas, Silent Loss, Public and Private Mourning

ISBN-13: 9780367101701 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 230 str.

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Opis

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"?,

Spis treści

Introduction , War games—mourning loss through play , Public memory and figures of fragmentation , To mend the world—trauma, mourning, and containment , Holocaust survivor mothers and their daughters—the intergenerational mourning process as a journey in search of the mother , Unable to mourn again? Media(ted) reactions to German neo-Nazi terrorism , Politicising trauma—a post-colonial and psychoanalytic conceptual intervention , Ongoing mourning as a way to go beyond endless grief—considerations on the Lebanese experience , When the “comfort women” speak—shareability and recognition of traumatic memory , A relational approach to trauma, memory, mourning, and recognition through Death and the Maiden by Ariel Dorfman , Victory and defeat—from Beveridge to Thatcher without tears

O autorze

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