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Record Nr.

UNINA9910971906903321

Autore

Nissim-Sabat Marilyn <1938->

Titolo

Neither victim nor survivor : thinking toward a new humanity / / Marilyn Nissim-Sabat

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, MD, : Lexington Books, c2009

ISBN

979-82-16-22804-2

1-282-49487-2

9786612494871

0-7391-3928-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (232 p.)

Disciplina

305.9/06

Soggetti

Victims

Victims in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

What is a victim? -- Freud, gender, and the epigenesis of morality: a critique -- The crisis in psychoanalysis: resolution through Husserlian phenomenology and feminism -- Addictions, akrasia, and self psychology: a Socratic and psychoanalytic view of akrasia as victim blaming -- Fanon, phenomenology, and the decentering of philosophy: Lewis Gordon's Her majesty's other children: sketches of racism from a neocolonial age -- Race and culture: victim blaming in psychology, psychiatry, and psychoanalysis -- Autonomy, empathy, and transcendence in Sophocles' Antigone: a phenomenological perspective, with an epilogue: on Lacan's Antigone -- Neither victim nor survivor be: who is Beloved's baby?

Sommario/riassunto

In Neither Victim nor Survivor: Thinking toward a New Humanity, Marilyn Nissim-Sabat offers a comprehensive critique of the interrelated concepts of "victim" and "survivor" as they have been ideologically distorted in Western thought. Nissim-Sabat proposes that a phenomenological attitude empowers us to overcome the anti-human consequences of both victimization of individuals and peoples and the ideological distortions of concepts that help to perpetuate that victimization.