Trauma Kultur Gesellschaft

This essay examines the social relations embedded in the Israeli terms and procedures concerning the Israel/Hamas hostage crises between 2023 and 2024. It analyzes the involvement of four key areas – law, military, policy, and the hostages’...

This paper ethnographically examines the lived experience and perceptions of the life-death worlds of Jewish-Israeli interlocutors. Three vignettes entailing interlocutor accounts and ethnographic participant observation of the subjective experience...

Bianca Stigter’s film works exclusively with three minutes of found footage shot by an American businessman in the summer of 1938 in his native Polish town of Nasielsk. The images, torn ›out of the flow of time‹, allow Stigter an artistic...

The dissociative dimensions of the psychic also include affective states and relationship constellations that were never capable of being psychically represented and therefore remain unrelated to the psychic structures, including those of defense...

The concept of ›perpetrator contact‹ makes us think of what has to be ended for any successful trauma therapy. However, in the course of therapy often it will be revealed what deep, long lasting emotional bonds and survival-critical attachment...

Using very different cinematic techniques, the films Je verrai toujours vos visages (2023) and La casa lobo (2018) deal with the dissociative consequences of violence. The feature film Je verrai toujours vos visages deals with the efforts of the...

Trance and possession states are forms of altered states of consciousness that are widespread throughout the world. Today, they are most common in non-Western cultures. Depending on the cultural context, they can be integrated into religious or...

Dissociative identity disorder is regarded as a severe attachment and trauma-related disorder and is considered challenging in terms of diagnosis and treatment. This article aims to contextualize the current debate about this disorder. Firstly, the...

Based on the life and flight story of Bahar, a young Afghan refugee, some of the causes and motives for her exclusion and disadvantage in various social contexts are worked out on the basis of multiple, recurring and cumulative experiences of...

The Yenish in Switzerland were subjected to antiziganist discrimination in the 20th century, not least by church actors. Through the removal of children and their religious education in Catholic institutions, it was intended to turn the ›morally...

This article focuses on the question of how refugees articulate experiences of trauma and how they address these experiences in religious terms. This is based on the assumption that traumatization can occur prior to or in the course of flight and...

This contribution is based on a qualitative study with German children and adolescents who went abroad to the ›Islamic State‹ (IS) together with their mothers, were ideologically socialized by the IS, and finally returned to Germany (Käsehage,...

The article deals with the hurtful, potentially traumatising effects of repressive religious socialisation and education. It is assumed that such traumas do not occur suddenly, but sequentially and cumulatively. After brief theoretical references,...

The seduction theory defines film in a broader sense as a medium of seduction and starts from two premises: Firstly, film itself is seduction; to see a film is to be seduced by it. And secondly, film always remains a phantom-like medium, a temporary...

On their research trip on the occasion of a planned fictional feature film about the transgenerational upheavals in her Iranian family, the author and her co-writer find themselves caught up in the rebellion of Iranian women against religious...

Hardly any other medium seems better suited to visualizing, storing, communicating, and transforming historical or recent traumatic injuries on an individual or collective level than film. In concise performances, it succeeds in making visible and...

In contrast to the often asserted fundamental non-representability of trauma, this article presents a film-psychoanalytic approach to the direct and indirect thematization of social trauma in feature film. Basic principles of trauma theory and film...

Poetic transcriptions of psycho-traumata whose trigger point is anchored in the Shoah and the Second World War can be found in Roy Andersson’s films. Through apparition and dream narration the past intervenes in the film characters’ present....

In the German higher education sector, the practice of trigger warnings has become established in recent years, following the US model. Just as in the U. S., this has stimulated heated debates about the necessity, opportunities and limits of trigger...