Activists working in post-traumatic societies have tended to resist
psychoanalytical terms because they fear that pathologizing individual
suffering displaces the collective and political causes of traumatic
violence. In a contrary direction, some thinkers about discourse and
power have latterly embraced what Judith Butler insists is 'the
psychic life of power'. An openly psychoanalytical modelling of trauma
for approaching major historical events such as the Holocaust adds yet
a third position. Drawing on all three strands, this book poses the
question of visual politics to psychoanalysis. It also explores the
relevance of the many psychoanalyses to the study of art and other
images in post-traumatic conditions. Visual Politics of Psychoanalysis
builds on maverick art historian Aby Warburg's project of combining
social, cultural, anthropological and psychological analyses of the
image in order to track the undercurrents of cultural violence in the
representational repertoire of Western modernity. In this innovative
collection, a distinguished group of international authors dare to
think psychoanalytically about the legacies of political violence and
suffering in relation to post-traumatic cultures worldwide. Drawing on
post-colonial and feminist theory, they analyse the image and the
aesthetic in conditions of historical trauma from enslavement and
colonisation to the Irish Famine, from Denmark's national trauma about
migrants and cartoons to collective shock after 9/11, from individual
traumas of loss registered in allegory to newsreels and documentaries
on suicide bombing in Israel/Palestine, from Kristeva's novels to
Kathryn Bigelow's cinema.
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Art and the Image in Post-Traumatic Cultures
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780857734600
Publisert
2020
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1. utgave
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Vendor
I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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