{"product_id":"bearing-witness-to-the-witness-dana-amir-9781138505308","title":"Bearing Witness to the Witness: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Four Modes of Traumatic Testimony","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBearing Witness to the Witness\u003c\/em\u003e examines the different methods of testimony given by trauma victims and the ways in which these can enrich or undermine the ability of the reader to witness them. Years of listening to both direct and indirect testimonies on trauma has lead Dana Amir to identify four modes of witnessing trauma: the \"metaphoric mode\", the \"metonymic mode,\" the \"excessive mode\" and the \"\u003ci\u003eMuselmann \u003c\/i\u003emode.\" In doing so, the author demonstrates the importance of testimony in understanding the nature of trauma, and therefore how to respond to trauma more adequately in a clinical psychoanalytic setting.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTo follow these four modes of interaction with the traumatic memory, the various chapters of the book present a close reading of three genres of traumatic witnessing: literary accounts by Holocaust survivors, memoirs (located between autobiographic recollection and fiction) and \"raw\" testimonies taken from Holocaust survivors. Since every traumatic testimonial narrative contains a combination of all four modes with various shifts between them, it is of crucial importance to identify the singular combination of modes that characterizes each traumatic narrative, focusing on the specific areas within which a shift occurs from one mode to another. Such a focus is extremely important, as illustrated and analyzed throughout this book, to the rehabilitation of the psychic metabolic system which conditions the digestion of traumatic materials, allowing a metaphoric working through of traumatic zones that were so far only accessible to repetition and evacuation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBearing Witness to the Witness \u003c\/i\u003ewill appeal to trauma researchers of all research areas, including psychologists, psychoanalysts, literary scholars as well as philosophers of language and philosophers of the mind. The book will also be of interest and relevance to clinical psychologists, psychoanalytic candidates and graduate students in literary theory and criticism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Dana Amir\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1138505307\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781138505308\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/18\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 170\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.00w x 0.60d","brand":"Dana Amir","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48112767336703,"sku":"9781138505308","price":48.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_27647324-93cf-4988-8fbd-6347b9023aea.jpg?v=1769610791","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/bearing-witness-to-the-witness-dana-amir-9781138505308","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}