History beyond trauma (Greek Edition) - Softcover

Davoine, Francoise; Gaudilliere, Jean - Max

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9606796515 ISBN 13: 9789606796517

Publisher: Methexis, 2014

Synopsis

What is common among mad people, good intelligentsia and children? What is common among Rabele and Wittgenstein, Arteau and Spentiger, Cartecious and Cantor, Homer and japanese theatre No? Françoise Davoine and Jean-Max Gaudilliere come up against them as they track divergencies, deviations and achievements of human spirit in otherworldly and unfamiliar place of trauma and destruction. Human's personal stories are connected with History. Every time, beyond the symptoms and crises, it is revealed the unspeakable horror of war, betray and fall of social web. Their understanding in the prompt of transmission gives us the key of healing. The historization of the moments of the fall of social web in the analysis include this certainty which is necessary for the birth of subject. In this book, in which french psychoanalytic thought meets with the american psychiatry in conditions of destruction or war, the authors set in question “means” of psychiatry. They redefine its history work as they examine again the possibility of subjectivity in the room of traumatical. Françoise Davoine and Jean-Max Gaudilliere are psychoanalusts and teach to École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, in the contect of seminar “Madness and social web”. Professors of Classical Studies (Greek, Latin) and doctors of Sociological Sciences have been coperating for decates with clinicals of United States in the context of their researches about the traumatical in the social web.

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About the Author

Francoise Davoine obtained an Agregation in classics (French literature, Latin and Greek) in 1966, followed by a doctorate in sociology in 1981, before becoming a psychoanalyst. She worked for thirty years as a psychoanalyst in public psychiatric hospitals in France, and as an external consultant and is currently in private practice. She was a Professor at the Centre for the Study of Social Movements, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris, where she and Jean-Max Gaudilliere conducted a weekly seminar on "Madness and the Social Link." She has also made numerous presentations at the Austen Riggs Center in Massachusetts (USA), as well as elsewhere in the US, in England, Sweden, Finland, Greece, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, and Switzerland. Dr Davoine is the author of many articles and books, including "La Folie Wittgenstein, Mother Folly", and "History Beyond Trauma" (with Jean Max Gaudilliere).

Edition details

• Publisher: Methexis
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 9606796515
• ISBN 13: 9789606796517
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: Greek, Modern (post 1453)
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 432