Visual Politics of Psychoanalysis: Art and the Image in Post-Traumatic Cultures

by Griselda Pollock

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1780763166
• ISBN13: 9781780763163
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"