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Trauma and the Ontology of the Modern Subject - Historical Studies in Philosophy, Psychology, and Psychoanalysis (Paperback)
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Trauma and the Ontology of the Modern Subject - Historical Studies in Philosophy, Psychology, and Psychoanalysis (Paperback)
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Recent scholarship has inquired into the socio-historical,
discursive genesis of trauma. Trauma and the Ontology of the Modern
Subject, however, seeks what has not been actualized in trauma
studies - that is, how the necessity and unassailable intensity of
trauma is fastened to its historical emergence. We must ask not
only what trauma means for the individual person's biography, but
also what it means to be the historical subject of trauma. In other
words, how does being human in this current period of history
implicate one's lived possibilities that are threatened, and
perhaps framed, through trauma? Foucauldian sensibilities inform a
critical and structural analysis that is hermeneutically grounded.
Drawing on the history of ideas and on Lacan's work in particular,
John L. Roberts argues that what we mean by trauma has developed
over time, and that it is intimately tied with an ontology of the
subject; that is to say, what it is to be, and means to be human.
He argues that modern subjectivity - as articulated by Heidegger,
Levinas, and Lacan - is structurally traumatic, founded in its
finitude as self-withdrawal in time, its temporal self-absence
becoming the very conditions for agency, truth and knowledge. The
book also argues that this fractured temporal horizon - as an
effect of an interrupting Otherness or alterity - is obscured
through the discourses and technologies of the psy-disciplines
(psychiatry, psychology, and psychotherapy). Consideration is given
to social, political, and economic consequences of this
concealment. Trauma and the Ontology of the Modern Subject will be
of enduring interest to psychoanalysts and psychotherapists as well
as scholars of philosophy and cultural studies.
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