About trauma

Emmanuel Levinas was an unlikely combination of Talmudic scholar and postmodern philosopher.

To live in the United States today is to be constantly exposed to moral injury.

Moral injury is a relatively new and puzzling category to the Department of Veterans Affairs, National Center for PTSD.

Melanie Klein’s clinical researches on early childhood led her to postulate that the traumatic pathogenic situation par excellence is the overriding triumph of the death instinct.

The Sorrow of War: A Novel of North Vietnam, by Bao Ninh, is an important but not particularly well known literary trauma narrative.* Ninh was a North Vietnamese soldier during the war.

Contemporary American Trauma Narratives, by Alan Gibbs (2014) is a fascinating book.

I just finished reading Lucky, by Alice Sebold.

The Department of Veterans Affairs may today deliver the worst trauma treatment known to man or woman.

There is an influential school of thought about trauma which argues that psychic trauma is the direct intrusion upon the mind of an unmediated experience.

This post is largely based on re-reading Freud’s Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920).

This post is a review of The Loss of the Assumptive World: A Theory of Traumatic Loss, edited by Jeffrey Kauffman.

This is my second post on Wilfred Bion and trauma.

When one thinks of trauma theorists, not only does the name of Wilfred Bion rarely spring to mind.