Traces of Violence and Freedom of Thought

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Auestad, Lene (Editor), Treacher Kabesh, Amal (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Series: Studies in the Psychosocial
• Subjects: Psychology.; World politics.; Ethics.; Political philosophy.; Psychoanalysis.; Psychosocial Studies.; Political Philosophy.; Political History.

This book examines how people cannot escape being tainted, whether actively engaged or not, by violence in its countless manifestations. The essays encompass a wide range of theoretical resources, methodological approaches and geo-political areas. They describe how images and fragments of traumatic...

Table of Contents:

• 1. INTRODUCTION by Lene Auestad and Amal Treacher Kabesh
• 2. LENE AUESTAD – Speech, Repetition, Renewal
• 3. SZYMON WRÓBEL – Logos, Ethos and Pathos or The Paradigm of Patho-Politics
• 4. WERNER PRALL – To Be or Bartleby: Psychoanalysis and the Crisis of Immunity
• 5. JONATHAN DAVIDOFF – Instrumental Subjectivity: père-suasion as père-version
• 6. KATHLEEN KELLEY-LAINÉ – From Totalitarian to Democratic Functioning: The Psychic Economy of Infantile Processes
• 7. KINGA GÖNCZ – Rhetorics of Power – Can it Dress up the Naked King?
• 8. EDWARD WEISBAND – The Rhetorics of Power and The Power of Rhetoric: Reification, Hate And Desire: A Psychopolitical Analysis of Mass Atrocity and Genocide
• 9. JULIA RICHTER – Intergenerational Layers of Silence: How the Concealed or the Outspoken Remain Undiscussable
• 10. LUCIA CORTI – Letters from The Unknown: Psychoanalysis and the Ethics of Knowing
• 11. AMAL TREACHER KABESH – Worrying Indifference: Sacrificing the Other
• 12. FERENC ERŐS – Ferenc Merei and the Politics of Psychoanalysis in Hungary
• 13. JULIA BOROSSA – Histories of Violence: Outrage, Identification and Analytic Work.