In this innovative collection, a distinguished group of international authors dare to think psychoanalytically about the legacies of political violence and suffering in relation to post-traumatic cultures worldwide. They build on maverick art historian Aby Warburg's project of combining social, cultural, anthropological and psychological analyses of the image in order to track the undercurrents of cultural violence in the representational repertoire of Western modernity. Drawing on post-colonial and feminist theory, they analyze the image and the aesthetic in conditions of historical trauma, from enslavement and colonization to the Irish Famine, from Denmark's national trauma about migrants and cartoons to collective shock after 9/11, from individual traumas of loss registered in allegory to newsreels and documentaries on suicide bombing in Israel/Palestine, and from Kristeva's novels to Kathryn Bigelow's cinema.
List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Series Editor's Preface: New Encounters: Arts, Cultures, Concepts Griselda Pollock Introduction: Visual Politics and Psychoanalyses Griselda Pollock I National Wounds and Contested Memory 1 Contest-Nation: Denmark - A PSTD-Struck Nation Contesting Analysis Henrik Ole Holm 2 Miniature Objects of Cultural Covenant: Transition and Translation in British North America Kristin Huneault 3 The Irish 'Holocaust and the Commemoration of Famine Emily FitzGerald II Trauma and Allegory 4 Courbet's Trauerspiel: Trouble with Women in the Studio Jennifer Tennant Jackson 5 Astonishing Marine Living: Ellen Gallagher at the Freud Museum Suzanna Chan III Fear and Surveillance 6 Transfixed: The Expression of Emotion as a History of Images Sharon Sliwinski 7 Dan Graham, Reality Television and the Society of Surveillance Paula Carabell IV Violence and Sexual Difference 8 Towards an Iconomy of Violence: Julia Kristeva in the Between of Ethics and Politics Maria Margaroni 9 From Horrorism to Compassion: Re-facing Medusan Otherness in dialogue with Adriana Cavarero and Bracha Ettinger Griselda Pollock 10 Encountering Blue Steel: Changing Tempers in Cinema Nicholas Chare Contributors' Biographies Bibliography Index
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