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9780847682287

Trauma and Self

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  • ISBN13:

    9780847682287

  • ISBN10:

    0847682285

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1996-05-14
  • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Summary

This remarkable collection of original essays, written by prominent scholars recognized for their achievements in a wide range of disciplines, defines trauma as a disruption in the fragile process of symbolization, or the human capacity to imbue life with meaning by representing the self's immortality. The contributors analyze the multiple meanings and deeper significance of trauma, whether of shell-shocked war veterans or victims of sexual abuse, and they discuss its manifestations, both subtle and obvious, in human behavior and memory. Organized as an honorary volume to Robert Jay Lifton, who identified trauma as the core psychological issue of the postmodern world, this book demonstrates how trauma and other fundamental breaks in human continuity inform psychiatric, historical, religious, literary, political, cultural, and scientific interpretations of the self.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Crime and Memoryp. 3
The Adopted Selfp. 19
Traumatic Departures: Survival and History in Freudp. 29
The Contextual Selfp. 45
Some Reflections on Twentieth-Century Violence and the Soft Apocalypsep. 59
Thought Reform Todayp. 69
Facts, Truth, and Social Responsibility: Reflections of a Developmental Scientistp. 81
Robert Jay Lifton and Biology: The Doctor Is In - Knock Twicep. 95
Violence, Selfhood, and the Ambiguities of Truthp. 99
Socialism and Human Nature, Once Againp. 119
Erik Erikson and Robert Lifton: The Pattern of a Relationshipp. 131
Melusine as Feminist: Shape-Shifting in Surrealismp. 151
The Protean Woman: Anxiety and Opportunityp. 159
A Quest of Eternal Lifep. 175
The Second Scarp. 185
The Japanese Psyche: Myth and Realityp. 197
Symbolic Immortality in Modern Japanese Literaturep. 205
Reflections on the Self of Homo Hippocraticus and the Quest for Symbolic Immortalityp. 221
Illicit Storiesp. 231
Life in Deathp. 245
"How Pliant Is Science?"p. 255
Confidentiality: In the College Presidential Search Process and Beyondp. 267
Shame and Public Lifep. 279
Indexp. 287
About the Contributorsp. 299
About the Editorsp. 303
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