The structural trauma of western culture : toward the end of humanity

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Label

The structural trauma of western culture : toward the end of humanity

Title remainder

toward the end of humanity

Statement of responsibility

Yochai Ataria ; translated by Donna Bossin

Creator

• Ataria, Yochai
• Ataria, Yochai

Author

• Ataria, Yochai
• Ataria, Yochai

Subject

• Psychic trauma -- Social aspects
• Psychic trauma and mass media
• Psychic trauma in literature
• Psychic trauma in motion pictures

Language

eng

Summary

This book describes the diverse manifestations of trauma and the ways in which trauma has shaped—and dismantled—our culture. Yochai Ataria describes how we are addicted to trauma and have become both its avid producers and consumers. Consequently, the culture in which we live has become posttraumatic in the deepest sense. This is apparent in the products that have shaped and continue to shape Western culture, ranging from the biblical sacrifice of Isaac to Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now. Ataria exposes the primary attributes of this so-called posttraumatic culture: sacrifice through action, an uncontrolled lust for blood, an inability to speak and describe things in words, a sense of foulness and alienation, emotional death, imperviousness, separation, and an overwhelming sense of exile.

Member of

• Online access with purchase: Springer

Cataloging source

N$T

Dewey number

155.93

Index

index present

LC call number

BF175.5.P75

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography