Interdisciplinary handbook of trauma and culture. ([2016])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Yochai Ataria, David Gurevitz, Haviva Pedaya, Yuval Neria, editors.
• Editors: Ataria, Yochai; Gurevitz, David; Pedaya, Haviva; Neria, Yuval
• Contents: Introduction -- Part I: Representations of Trauma.-Trauma and Literature: The Postmodern Option -- Franz Kafka and Cormac Mccarthy -- Cultural Trauma and the Media -- Television: A Traumatic Culture -- Popular Trauma Culture: The Pain of Others Between Holocaust Tropes and Kitsch-Sentimental Melodrama -- The Trauma of Modernism: Between Existential Indeterminacy and Allegoresis -- Before Recognition: On the Aesthetics of Aftermath -- From Hiroshima to Fukushima: Comics and Animation as Subversive Agents of Memory in Japan -- Performative Recollection: Koizumi Meiro Representations of Kamikaze Pilots and the Trauma of Asia-Pacific War in Japan -- Architecture and Trauma -- Art as the Transport-Station of Trauma -- Part II: Theory of Trauma -- The Trauma of Philosophy -- Irresponsible Nonsense: An Epistemological and Ethical Critique of Postmodern Trauma Theory.-The Death of the Witness in the Era of Testimony: Primo Levi and Georges Perec -- Walking, Walking Out and Walking Through: Transitional Space and Traumatic Time -- Trauma and Monotheism: Sigmund Freud's Moses and Monotheism and the Possibility of Writing a Traumatic History of Religion -- The Crisis of Manhood -- Laius Complex and Shocks of Maternality: With Franz Kafka and Sylvia Plath -- Fear, Trauma, and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Clinical, Neurobiological, and Cultural Perspectives -- Part III: Case Studies of Collective Trauma -- Some Reflections on Transmitting the Memory of the Holocaust and its Implications, Particularly in Israel -- Placing Collective Trauma within its Social Context: the Case of 9/11 Attacks -- Masculinity, Spirituality, and Male Wartime Sexual Trauma -- Killing the Killer: Rampage and Gun Rights as a Syndrome -- Loss, Traumatic Bereavement and Mourning Culture: The Israel Example -- Fear and Silence in Burma and Indonesia: Comparing Two National Tragedies and Two Individual Outcomes of Trauma -- Conclusion: Trauma and Culture: How Trauma can Shape the Human Mind.
• Publisher Details: Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (xvii, 399 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 155.8; Psychic trauma -- Social aspects; Psychic trauma and mass media; Psychic trauma in motion pictures; Psychic trauma in literature; HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General; MEDICAL -- Clinical Medicine; MEDICAL -- Diseases; MEDICAL -- Evidence-Based Medicine; MEDICAL -- Internal Medicine; Clinical psychology; Ethnopsychology; Psychology; Cross Cultural Psychology; History of Psychology; Clinical Psychology; Motion Pictures as Topic; Literature; Motion Pictures; Mass Media; Sociological Factors; Psychological Trauma -- psychology; Psychological Trauma -- ethnology; Psychology; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319294049; 3319294040
• Related ISBNs: 3319294024; 9783319294025
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.