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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791872903321

Titolo

First do no harm : the paradoxical encounters of psychoanalysis, warmaking, and resistance / / edited by Adrienne Harris, Steven Botticelli

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2010

ISBN

1-135-84295-7

1-135-84296-5

1-283-04576-1

9786613045768

0-203-88519-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (426 p.)

Collana

The relational perspectives book series ; ; v. 45

Altri autori (Persone)

BotticelliSteven

HarrisAdrienne

Disciplina

616.89/17

Soggetti

War - Psychological aspects

War victims - Psychology

Psychoanalysis - Moral and ethical aspects

Psychology, Military

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

pt. 1. Psychoanalysis and antiwar work : healing -- pt. 2. The paradox : psychology's militarism -- pt. 3. War and militarism deconstructed -- pt. 4. Resistance.

Sommario/riassunto

At the outset of World War I - the ""Great War"" - Freud supported the Austro-Hungarian Empire for which his sons fought. But the cruel truths of that bloody conflict, wrought on the psyches as much as the bodies of the soldiers returning from the battlefield, caused him to rethink his stance and subsequently affected his theory: Psychoanalysis, a healing science, could tell us much about both the drive for war and the ways to undo the trauma that war inherently breeds, but its principles could just as easily serve the enemy's desires to inculcate its own brand of ""truth.""Even a ce