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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.

Author: Strozier, Charles B, Author: Flynn, Michael, Contribution by: Birnbaum, Norman, Contribution by: Brooks, Peter, Contribution by: Caruth, Cathy, Contribution by: Caws, Mary Ann, Contribution by: Doi, Takeo, Contribution by: Dorban, Joshua, Contribution by: Dunne, John S, Contribution by: Epstein, Cynthia Fuchs, Contribution by: Elshtain, Jean Bethke, Contribution by: Feder, Lillian, Contribution by: Friedman, Lawrence J, Contribution by: Gitlin, Todd, Contribution by: Goodman, David G, Contribution by: Herman, Judith Lewis, Contribution by: Holton, Gerald, Contribution by: Horowitz, Frances Degen, Contribution by: Lifton, Betty Jean, Contribution by: Palgi, Phyllis, Contribution by: Riesman, David, Contribution by: Sennett, Richard, Contribution by: Singer, Margaret Thaler, Contribution by: Strozier, Charles B, Contribution by: Tiger, Lionel, Contribution by: Wachtel, Paul L, Contribution by: Walsh, Noel

Topic: Psychology
Media: Book
ISBN: 847682293
Language: English
Pages: 303