The Trauma Controversy: Philosophical and Interdisciplinary Dialogues

by Golden, Kristen Brown; Bergo, Bettina G.

• ISBN13: 9781438428208
• ISBN10: 1438428200
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-10-08
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Summary

Provides multiple and accessible perspectives on trauma both as a condition and as a cultural phenomenon.

Author Biography

Kristen Brown Golden is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Millsaps College and the author of Nietzsche and Embodiment: Discerning Bodies and Non-Dualism, also published by SUNY Press. Bettina G. Bergo is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Universit de Montral. She is author of Levinas between Ethics and Politics: For the Beauty that Adorns the Earth and coeditor (with Jill Stauffer) of Nietzsche and Levinas: "After the Death of a Certain God."

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Trauma and Theoretical Frameworks: Psychoanalysis and Phenomenology
A Late Adventure of the Feelings: Loss, Trauma, and the Limits of Psychoanalysis	p. 23
Overcoming the Confusion of Loss and Trauma: The Need of Thinking Historically	p. 45
Trauma and Speech as Bodily Adaptation in Merleau-Ponty	p. 71
Trauma and Bodily Memory: Poetics and Neuroscience
Trauma and the Impossibility of Experience	p. 99
Trauma's Presentation	p. 115
Trauma and Clinical Approaches
Crime and Memory	p. 127
An Elephant in the Room: The Impact of Traumatic Stress on Individuals and Groups	p. 143
Trauma and Recent Cultural History
The Snake That Bites: The Albanian Experience of Collective Trauma as Reflected in an Evolving Landscape	p. 171
Traumatic Life: Violence, Pain, and Responsiveness in Heidegger	p. 189
Trauma and Hysteria: A Tale of Passions and Reversal	p. 205
Afterword
Terror's Wake: Trauma and Its Subjects	p. 235
List of Contributors	p. 263
Index	p. 267
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