Violence in American foreign policy: a psychoanalytic approach

Summers, Frank

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“…And I have thought as well that just as an individual can be traumatically narcissistically injured, so too can a country. Ours became a PTSD victim post 9/11, which triggered in turn, a cascade of destructive omnipotent responses (see Summers, ).…”

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The culture of interrogation: Evaluating detainees at Guantanamo Bay

Schoen¹

2017

Appl Psychoanal Studies

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2017

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Psychoanalytic theory and cultural competence in psychotherapy.

Tummala‐Narra¹

2016

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It is important to situate this book in its particular social, historical, and political context. I have written this book during a time of war, terrorist attacks, intense national debate concerning immigration policy and same-sex marriage, ongoing racial profiling and violence and gender-based physical and sexual violence, and a growing income gap between the wealthy and the poor. This is also a time in the united States when children and adolescents are exposed either directly or indirectly to alarming rates of school and community violence and when many young women and men assume that the word "feminist" refers to women who "hate" men. The president of the united States is a biracial, African American and White man, and yet we continue to witness injustice around racial lines. On a global scale, we are witnessing an unprecedented rate of internal and external displacement (due to war, poverty, and ethnic and religious conflicts), human trafficking, and violence against women and girls. There is tremendous innovation in information technology, which

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The Politics of Constructed Humiliation

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2017

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L’humiliation, analogon groupal de la honte chez le sujet individuel, est appréhendée comme le mobile de la violence groupale. Les auteurs analysent les ressorts inconscients de la réécriture, par un chef, d’une humiliation authentique et réelle passée qui a fait trauma, en un récit d’humiliation construite : la narration symbolique paranoïde d’humiliation qui en résulte justifie et appelle une violence réelle à visée réparatrice. Ce sentiment d’humiliation construite serait, par là, à la base des grandes violences politiques. Cette hypothèse est mobilisée dans plusieurs contextes historiques de violence politique, du nazisme jusqu’aux attentats récemment commis au nom d’un islamisme radical.

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Violence in American foreign policy: a psychoanalytic approach

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The culture of interrogation: Evaluating detainees at Guantanamo Bay

The culture of interrogation: Evaluating detainees at Guantanamo Bay

Psychoanalytic theory and cultural competence in psychotherapy.

The Politics of Constructed Humiliation

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