The Problem of Trauma

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Yusin
Keyword(s):  
Traumatic Event ◽  
Trauma Studies ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Compulsion To Repeat ◽  
Psychic Event

This chapter brings to light the ways in which the concept of the psychic event, understood as a traumatic event, in the Freudian metapsychology blurs the distinction between interiority and exteriority in the form and functioning of psychical life. It demonstrates that Freud’s thinking of the compulsion to repeat traumatic scenarios distinguishes between the binding of repetition and the process of representing the drives. This difference shows that the character of compulsion is not purely determinist and the psychic elaboration of trauma is the formation of a materially real event. Unlike current trends in trauma studies, this chapter exposes how the relation between binding and repetition in trauma leads to the possibility of transforming the ontological meaning of destruction.

scholarly journals Music as post-traumatic discourse: Nikolay Myaskovsky’s Sixth Symphony

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 104-118
Author(s):  
Patrick Zuk
Keyword(s):  
Traumatic Event ◽  
Musical Composition ◽  
Traumatic Experience ◽  
Trauma Studies ◽  
Emotional Numbing ◽  
Central Concern ◽  
Interdisciplinary Field ◽  
Musical Symbolism ◽  
Post Traumatic

This essay explores ways in which musicologists might extend work undertaken by humanities scholars in the interdisciplinary field of trauma studies that has highlighted the centrality of traumatic experience to modernist creativity. It is focussed around a case study of a musical composition that represents the emotional aftermath of a traumatic event, the Sixth Symphony of the Soviet composer Nikolay Myaskovsky (1923). A central concern is to demonstrate how the symphony’s musical symbolism is strikingly evocative of typical features of post-traumatic mentation, such as dissociation and emotional numbing, and the inhibition of the ability to mourn. It closes by considering the potential implications of the findings for understanding work by other modernist composers.

scholarly journals Painful Neutrality: Screening the Extradition of the Balts from Sweden

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-92
Author(s):  
Lars Kristensen ◽  
Christo Burman
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Film Studies ◽  
Traumatic Event ◽  
Historical Event ◽  
Trauma Studies ◽  
The Novel ◽  
World War ◽  
Moving Images ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
The Baltic

Abstract The article deals with the extradition of Baltic soldiers from Sweden in 1946 as represented in Per Olov Enquist’s novel The Legionnaires: A Documentary Novel (Legionärerna. En roman om baltutlämningen, 1968) and Johan Bergenstråhle’s film A Baltic Tragedy (Baltutlämningen. En film om ett politiskt beslut Sverige 1945, Sweden, 1970). The theoretical framework is taken from trauma studies and its equivalent within film studies, where trauma is seen as a repeated occurrence of a past event. In this regard, literature and moving images become the means of reaching the traumatic event, a way to relive it. What separates the extradition of the Baltic soldiers from other traumas, such as the Holocaust, is that it functions as a guilt complex related to the failure to prevent the tragedy, which is connected to Sweden’s position of neutrality during World War II and the appeasement of all the warring nations. It is argued that this is a collective trauma created by Enquist’s novel, which blew it into national proportions. However, Bergenstråhle’s film changes the focus of the trauma by downplaying the bad conscience of the Swedes. In this way, the film aims to create new witnesses to the extradition affair. The analysis looks at the reception of both the novel and film in order to explain the two different approaches to the historical event, as well as the two different time periods in which they were produced. The authors argue that the two years that separate the appearance of the novel and the film explain the swing undergone by the political mood of the late 1960s towards a deflated revolution of the early 1970s, when the film arrived on screens nationwide. However, in terms of creating witnesses to the traumatic event, the book and film manage to stir public opinion to the extent that the trauma changes from being slowly effacing to being collectively ‘experienced’ through remembrance. The paradox is that, while the novel still functions as a vivid reminder of the painful aftermath caused by Swedish neutrality during World War II, the film is almost completely forgotten today. The film’s mode of attacking the viewers with an I-witness account, the juxtaposition and misconduct led to a rejection of the narrative by Swedish audiences.

scholarly journals VOICES OF “THE UNHEARD” AND “NEW SINCERITY”: PRACTICES OF GERONTOLOGICAL, PENITENTIAL, ETHNIC, RELIGIOUS EXCLUSION AND THEIR CONCEPTION IN MODERN THEORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF CULTURE (PROBLEM STATEMENT)

2021 ◽  
pp. 33-38
Author(s):  
S. N. Ovodova
Keyword(s):  
Memory Studies ◽  
The Other ◽  
Modern Theory ◽  
Trauma Studies ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
Problem Statement ◽  
Modern Culture ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Philosophy Of Culture ◽  
Postcolonial Discourse

The article examines the understanding of exclusion procedures in the theory and philosophy of culture. The methodological framework for studying the practices of gerontological, penitentiary, ethnic and religious exclusion in modern culture is determined. The heuristic potential of the decolonial optics and the metamodern approach in the study of exclusion practices in modern culture is revealed, which, in particular, manifests itself in changing the principles of representation of cultural traumas. Replacing the postmodern construction of the narrative about the experience of the traumatized and excluded on the principle of “shock and show” with a metamodern new sincerity allows us to move away from commodification and stigmatization. The article analyses the current trends in the construction of relationships with the Other in postcolonial discourse, decolonial optics, trauma studies, memory studies, and metamodernism.

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Yusin
Keyword(s):  
Traumatic Event ◽  
Postcolonial Studies ◽  
Trauma Studies

The introduction describes the conceptual contexts for the composition of the traumatic event as it is developed in psychoanalysis and postcolonial studies. It offers an analysis of the analytic strategies of postcolonial critiques that identify and resist so called Eurocentric biases within the field of trauma studies. Unveiling that such critiques owe to the same ideological tendency that assumes priority of the symbolic over the material dimensions of life advanced by the field, this chapter situates the traumatic event as the point where psychoanalytic and postcolonial discourses meet. In so establishing, it demonstrates the necessity to transform the concepts of trauma and event.

Unshed Tears: Meaning, Trauma and Translation

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Davide Manenti
Keyword(s):  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Literary Translation ◽  
Direct Access ◽  
Trauma Studies ◽  
Source Text ◽  
Repetition Compulsion ◽  
Trauma Victim ◽  
The Past ◽  
Compulsion To Repeat ◽  
Working Out

The repetition compulsion through which the trauma victim attempts at working out his or her neuroses shares similarities with the compulsion to repeat enacted in translation. Translation, like trauma, happens belatedly, looks back at the past of the source text and at the same time looks forward to the future of the translated text. Using an interdisciplinary approach that combines literary, translation and trauma studies, this article presents an analysis of Katherine Mansfield’s ‘Life of Ma Parker’ and of the translational challenges it poses. The author finally suggests a rethinking of translation as a peculiar and unexpected form witnessing that, like trauma, originates where a direct access to meaning seems to be denied.

The Future Life of Trauma

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Traumatic Event ◽  
New Materialism ◽  
Political Responsibility ◽  
British India ◽  
Form Of Life ◽  
The Future ◽  
Domains Of Life ◽  
History Of ◽  
Psychic Event

The Future Life of Trauma elaborates a transformation in the concepts of trauma and event by situating a ground-breaking encounter between psychoanalytic and postcolonial discourses. It unfolds a new materialism that asserts the coincidence between the symbolic and empirical domains of life. Proceeding from the formation of psychical life as it is presented in the Freudian metapsychology, Future Life thinks anew the relation between temporality and the traumatized subjectivity, demonstrating how the psychic event, understood as a traumatic event, is a material reality that alters the determining character of the structure of repetition. It comprises two major sections. The first elucidates how the case of the psychoanalytic concept of trauma discloses the self-transformative tendency of life as the movement immanent to the real. Through a focus on the role of borders in the history of the 1947 Partition of British India and the politics of memorialization in post-genocide Rwanda, the second brings to light the implications of trauma as a material event in pressing contemporary issues of nation-formation, sovereignty, and geopolitical violence. In showing how the form of the psyche changes in the encounter, Future Life presents a challenge to the category of difference in the condition of identity. The epilogue pushes toward a new approach to ethical and political responsibility that breaks the deconstructive loops perpetuated by the idea of promise. The result is the formation of a form of life that elaborates a new relation to destruction and finitude by asserting its innate power to transform itself.

scholarly journals Representing Rape Trauma in Film: Moving beyond the Event

Arts ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda Spallacci
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Popular Culture ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Traumatic Event ◽  
Memory Studies ◽  
Trauma Studies ◽  
Traumatic Memory ◽  
Television Series ◽  
Popular Films

Trauma theorists foreground the unrepresentability of trauma; however, with modern innovations in visual representation, such as the photograph and cinema, depictions of trauma have begun to circulate across different mediums for a variety of audiences. These images tend to problematically present the traumatic event rather than the effects of trauma, such as traumatic memory. Specifically, some contemporary Hollywood popular films and television series that include rape as their subject matter often include a rape scene that can evoke affects such as disgust or empathy, and while these affects can last the duration of the film, they fail to shift popular discourses about rape because affect is more productive when it focuses on effects instead of events. As trauma studies has shifted to memory studies in the Humanities, and rape has become more prominent in popular culture through the circulation of personal testimony on social media and memoir, depictions of rape in cinema have slowly started to change from presentations of rape scenes to representations of rape trauma that highlight different affects, such as shame. Using Monster (2003), Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), Room (2015), and the television series, 13 Reasons Why (2017) and Sharp Objects (2018) as case studies, this paper argues that, for an audiovisual depiction of rape to shift popular discourses about rape, it would have to function rhetorically to widen the cultural understanding of rape trauma beyond the event, and demonstrate that rape trauma should be understood as part of the personal, unconscious, cultural, and visual mediation of traumatic memory.

Current Trends in the Training and Utilization of Paraprofessionals in Speech and Language Programs

1991 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 51-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathy L. Coufal ◽  
Allen L. Steckelberg ◽  
Stanley F. Vasa
Keyword(s):  
Selection Criteria ◽  
Job Descriptions ◽  
Paraprofessional Training ◽  
Language Programs ◽  
Program Administrators ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Training And Supervision ◽  
Communicative Disorders ◽  
Supervision Practices ◽  
A Current

Administrators of programs for children with communicative disorders in 11 midwestern states were surveyed to assess trends in the training and utilization of paraprofessionals. Topics included: (a) current trends in employment, (b) paraprofessional training, (c) use of ASHA and state guidelines, and (d) district policies for supervision. Selection criteria, use of job descriptions, training programs, and supervision practices and policies were examined. Results indicate that paraprofessionals are used but that standards for training and supervision are not consistently applied across all programs. Program administrators report minimal training for supervising professionals.

The Graduate Dysphagia Course: Opening the Door to New Frontiers

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (13) ◽  
pp. 104-112
Author(s):  
Karen A. Ball ◽  
Luis F. Riquelme
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Student ◽  
Paradigm Shifts ◽  
Speech Language Pathology ◽  
Approaches To Teaching ◽  
Graduate Level ◽  
Graduate Curriculum ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Language Pathology

A graduate-level course in dysphagia is an integral part of the graduate curriculum in speech-language pathology. There are many challenges to meeting the needs of current graduate student clinicians, thus requiring the instructor to explore alternatives. These challenges, suggested paradigm shifts, and potential available solutions are explored. Current trends, lack of evidence for current methods, and the variety of approaches to teaching the dysphagia course are presented.

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