Traumatic Reliving in History, Literature, and Film

ISBN-13: 9781855757431 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 164 str.

Rudolph Binion

Opis

Traumatic Reliving in History, Literature, and Film explores an intriguing facet of human behavior never yet examined in its own right. An individual or a group may contrive unawares to repeat a half-forgotten traumatic experience in disguise. Such reliving has shaped major careers and large-scale events throughout history. Insight into it is therefore vital for understanding historic causation past and present. It has also proliferated in literature since antiquity and lately in film as well, indicating its tacit acceptance as a piece of life by the reading and movie-going public. It examines the evidence of history, literature, and film on how this irrational behavioral mechanism works.

Spis treści

Foreword , Reliving , Reliving with Freud , Reliving in history , Reliving in history: A closeup , Reliving in letters , Reliving on screen , Reliving: Who, when, why?

O autorze

Rudolph Binion