Visual Politics of Psychoanalysis: Art and the Image in Post-Traumatic Cultures (New Encounters: Arts, Cultures, Concepts)

by Griselda Pollock (Author), Griselda Pollock (Author)

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  Illustrated
  2013

  $47.04

  Activists working in post-traumatic societies have resisted psychoanalytical terms because they fear that pathologizing individual suffering displaces the collective and political causes of traumatic violence. In a contrary direction, some thinkers have latterly embraced what Judith Butler insists is 'the psychic life of power.'