Trauma Kultur Gesellschaft

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...

This article explores the memory-cultural significance of bodies in video testimonies of Holocaust survivors. While visibility plays an important role in fostering compassionate recognition of traumatic experiences, the analysis of specific body...

The workshop report outlines the doctoral project ›Aquatic Deaths. A Cinematic Motif Complex and its Gender and Media Theoretical Dimensions‹. Within this framework, a water related topos is explored that is used to represent psychotrauma in...

The concept of trauma has acquired such a range and heterogeneity that it seems appropriate to outline specific dimensions of meaning in more detail. Extreme traumatisation tears a gap in the continuum of psychic representability of experience,...

This comparative study explores the ways in which Israeli descendants of the Holocaust and descendants of the Cambodian genocide reconstitute ›discontinued‹ descendant-ancestor relationships with the personally never-known dead of the genocide....