Tense Past: Cultural Essays in Trauma and Memory - 1st.

Memory, Trauma, and History is comprised of essays that fall into five overlapping subject areas: history and memory; psychoanalysis and trauma; postmodernism, scholarship, and cultural politics; photography and representation; and liberal education. The oldest essays in this book were first drafted at the end of the 1980s, and the most recent ones in 2010.

In these essays, Michael S. Roth uses psychoanalysis to build a richer understanding of history, and then takes a more expansive conception of history to decode the cultural construction of memory. He first examines the development in nineteenth-century France of medical criteria for diagnosing memory disorders, which signal fundamental changes in the understanding of present and past. He next.

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Tense Past: Cultural Essays in Trauma and Memory, edited by Paul Antze and Michael Lambek (New York: Routledge, 1996); How We Think They Think: Anthropological Approaches to Cognition, Memory, and Literacy, by Maurice E. F. Bloch (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1998); Rewriting the Soul: Multiple Personality and the Sciences of Memory, by Ian Hacking (Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Tense Past: Cultural Essays in Trauma and Memory Tense Past: Cultural Essays in Trauma and Memory Weiss, Brad 1998-08-01 00:00:00 reviews psychology, modeling itself on physiology, localizes experience in discrete bodily functions. The links between mind and body forged in these new sciences of memory have depended on trauma, a medical wound made psychic by the parallel rupture in associations.

This collection of disparate essays, published between 2004 and 2018, coheres around an original introduction that not only provides a historical overview of cultural trauma, but is also an important theoretical contribution to cultural trauma and collective identity in its own right. The Afterword from esteemed sociologist Eric Woods connects the essays and explores their significance for the.

In this book, Ron Eyerman explores the formation of the African-American identity through the theory of cultural trauma. The trauma in question is slavery, not as an institution or as personal experience, but as collective memory: a pervasive remembrance that grounded a people's sense of itself. Combining a broad narrative sweep with more detailed studies of important events and individuals.

This course is concerned with the cultural politics of memory and trauma. Whose memories are sought, believed and commemorated in the public sphere? What problems do traumatic events present for those attempting to commemorate or represent them? Is trauma a useful cross-cultural concept? We will begin by tracing the history of the concept of trauma in psychoanalysis, medicine and popular culture.

The Long Defeat: Cultural Trauma, Memory, and Identity in Japan. Akiko Hashimoto. Society. History. In The Long Defeat, Akiko Hashimoto explores the stakes of war memory in Japan after its catastrophic defeat in World War II, showing how and why defeat has become an indelible part of national collective life, especially in recent decades. Divisive war memories lie at the root of the.

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Unlike psychological trauma, cultural trauma does not belong to an individual; it is a collective trauma caused by a horrific event that leaves an impact on the community. In general, psychologists and sociologists agree that trauma and event are separate, trauma is an act of signification, hence something social. Jeffery C. Alexander stresses the social dimension with the notion of cultural.