{"product_id":"traumatizing-theory-karyn-ball-9781590512494","title":"Traumatizing Theory","description":"\u003ci\u003eA volume in the Contemporary Theory Series edited by Frances Restuccia\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn interdisciplinary collection of essays that critically reflect on the value and limits of psychoanalysis for conceptualizing traumatic affect.\u003cbr\u003eA page-turner for anyone even remotely drawn to the subject of trauma, \u003ci\u003eTraumatizing Theory\u003c\/i\u003e includes essays that go beyond psychoanalysis in rethinking the cultural significance of traumatic anxiety, melancholy, and the representation of suffering in testimony, self-narration, and politics. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTraumatizing Theory is unmistakably on the cutting edge and moves trauma theory into a new postmodern phase. Karyn Ball's introduction reframes debates about psychoanalysis within trauma studies. Bettina Bergo's essay revisits the historical development of hysteria as Freud's model for traumatic anxiety in both men and women. Dorothea Olkowski also focuses on traumatic anxiety, but problematizes Freud's masculinist and scientistic premises. Sarah Murphy and Susannah Radstone examine the disciplinary effects of public confession and testimony while Ball and Kligerman critique Deleuze's post-psychoanalytic \u003ci\u003eCinema\u003c\/i\u003e books and Gerhard Richter's haunted \u003ci\u003eOctober 18, 1977 Cycle\u003c\/i\u003e, respectively, as testimonies to the latent impact of traumatic history. For Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky, philosophy serves ineluctably as a medium of testimony in Sarah Kofman's autobiographical writings about ambivalence toward her biological Jewish mother and guilty love for the French woman who adopted Sarah during the Nazi occupation. Drucilla Cornell also explores conflicted self-narrations among transnationally adopted children and their parents. The collection concludes with essays by Juliet Flower-MacCannell, Lauren Berlant, and John Mowitt on the politics of traumatic identification in the public sphere.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Karyn Ball\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1590512499\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781590512494\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Other Press (NY)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 496\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.31lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.92h x 6.30w x 1.18d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eScitech Book News\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2007 pg. 100","brand":"Karyn Ball","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49096994816255,"sku":"9781590512494","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/traumatizing-theory-karyn-ball-9781590512494","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}