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9/11 as a Collective Trauma: And Other Essays on Psychoanalysis and Society

By Hans-Juergen Wirth

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2005
ISBN
0881634344, 9780881634341
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5025586 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
202\203
Topic
Psychology
Time added
2018-06-10 07:31:12
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Hans Juergen Wirth, a leading German psychoanalyst and editor of the journal Psychosozial, brings cultural breadth, historical perspective, and analytic astuteness to bear in considering the "collective trauma" of 9/11.  His meditation, which brings into its compass the psychic structure of suicide bombers and the psycho-political causes and consequences of the Iraq war, is especially insightful in considering the psychological meaning of 9/11 for the world outside the U.S.  In complementary forays into psyche and politics, Wirth explores the relationship of xenophobia and violence; the story of Jewish analysts who emigrated from Nazi Germany to the United States; the idea of man in psychoanalysis; and the family dynamics that sustain the AIDS phobia.  These wonderfully illuminating essays, both cautionary and constructive, show how clinical experience with the unconscious processes of violence, traumatization, and destructiveness can be foundational to new political strategies for dealing with collective violence.

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