TRAUMA AND THE VICTIM ECONOMY.
The history of the twentieth century is filled with examples of mass murder and destruction of entire nations. Survivors of those traumatic events have horrific memories, which cannot be compared to anything that may happen in the course of an ordinary quiet life. However, coping strategies for over...
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=152545720&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 152545720 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 14060957 1COT jtl: Folklore (14060957) issn: 14060957 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: 2021 vid: 83 pid: 24401 pub: Folklore: Electronic Journal of Folklore artinfo: ui: 152545720 10.7592/FEJF2021.83.troitskiy ppf: 29 ppct: 18 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P size: 2MB tig: atl: TRAUMA AND THE VICTIM ECONOMY. aug: au: Troitskiy, Sergey affil: Senior Research Fellow Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia su: Baudrillard, Jean, 1929-2007 Derrida, Jacques, 1930-2004 Victims Mass murder Historical trauma Twentieth century Psychological adaptation Posttraumatic growth sug: subj: Baudrillard, Jean, 1929-2007 Derrida, Jacques, 1930-2004 Victims Mass murder Historical trauma Twentieth century Psychological adaptation Posttraumatic growth keyword: construct cultural memory forgiveness Jacques Derrida Jean Baudrillard localisation political economy referee sacrifice third party topography tormentor trauma victim victim economy victim order ab: The history of the twentieth century is filled with examples of mass murder and destruction of entire nations. Survivors of those traumatic events have horrific memories, which cannot be compared to anything that may happen in the course of an ordinary quiet life. However, coping strategies for overcoming the consequences of such traumatic experience were also developed in the twentieth century. It was made possible by conceptualisation of trauma as a cultural and psychological phenomenon at the level of theory and practice in various sciences. Introduction of this concept into the flesh and blood of modern (popular) culture, or rather its inclusion in the fabric of everyday cultural practices, transformed the concept of trauma into a mechanism of culture. Trauma developed into a concept, as we know it, because it functioned as one of the cultural clichés of the era, according to which economics, politics, science, literature, etc., are built. Of course, mass exterminations of people took place even before the twentieth century; however, they were not interpreted as historical traumas as we interpret them now because, firstly, a sense of distance from the event was not developed, which is characteristic of traumatic interpretation, and, secondly, the narratives corresponded to other cultural clichés (typical of those epochs), which served as the basis for political mechanics, economic processes, etc. This article identifies the main features characterising the functioning of trauma as a cultural mechanism. This objective is achieved by appealing to political economy and Baudrillard's and Derrida's critique of the victim order. In this study the term "loss" is used as an umbrella term for various traumatic constructs, such as the victim and the trauma itself. They are characterised as objects of a credit relationship between subjects (both individual and collective), according to which the victim (trauma) construct could be described as a debt obligation that must be fulfilled by paying off a symbolic debt. The study identifies all the acting forces (parties) in the trauma construct, which give form to this construct. The author draws attention to the spatial (topographical) accent of the traumatic narrative, as well as to the necessity of toponymic localisation of the active forces in space. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of Folklore (14060957) is the property of Folklore: Electronic Journal of Folklore and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: Folklore (14060957) holder: Folklore: Electronic Journal of Folklore dt: @attributes: year: 2021 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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