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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456772903321

Autore

Binion Rudolph <1927-2011, >

Titolo

Traumatic Reliving in History, Literature and Film / / by Rudolph Binion

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boca Raton, FL : , : Routledge, , [2018]

©2011

ISBN

0-429-48432-1

1-283-07091-X

9786613070913

1-84940-716-9

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (211 p.)

Disciplina

616.8521

791.43019

Soggetti

Psychic trauma - History

Psychohistory

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Copy Right; FOREWORD; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; CHAPTER ONE: Reliving; CHAPTER TWO: Reliving with Freud; CHAPTER THREE: Reliving in history; CHAPTER FOUR: Reliving in history: A closeup; CHAPTER FIVE: Reliving in letters; CHAPTER SIX: Reliving on screen; CHAPTER SEVEN: Reliving: Who, when, why?; REFERENCES

Sommario/riassunto

Traumatic Reliving in History, Literature, and Film explores an intriguing facet of human behavior never yet examined in its own right - an individual or a group may contrive, unawares, to repeat a half-forgotten traumatic experience in disguise. Such reliving has shaped major careers and large-scale events throughout history. Insight into it is therefore vital for understanding historic causation past and present. Traumatic Reliving has also proliferated in literature since antiquity and lately in film as well, indicating its tacit acceptance as a piece of life by the reading and movie-going public. This book examines the evidence of history, literature, and film on how this irrational behavioral mechanism works.