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Subject(s)

• Nature and nurture [Browse]
• Violence—Psychological aspects [Browse]
• Violence [Browse]

Related name

• Levin, Tobe [Browse]

Series

• At the interface/probing the boundaries ; v. 47. [More in this series]
• At the interface/probing the boundaries. Cultures of violence. [More in this series]
• At the interface : probing the boundaries ; v. 47. Cultures of violence

Summary note

“One afternoon, a patient who had been in three times weekly ... psychotherapy ... left my office after her session, drove down to the train tracks half a mile from my office, and sat down facing an oncoming train.” This tragic event opens the essay by psychoanalyst Susanne Chassay who explores the relationship between private and political terrorism. Her viewpoint complements analyses of violence – that ‘mercurial gestalt’ – by other contributors to this collection derived from a 2003 Cultures of Violence conference held at St. Catherine’s College, Oxford, organized by the Inter-disciplinary Net. From fields as diverse as philosophy, sociology, psychology, history, political science, literary criticism, and forensics, authors consider, for instance, hostility to European minorities; military training and torture; the ‘endemic violence’ aesthetically recorded by Haitian novelists; child abuse in film; female genital mutilation in fiction; or the massacre of Koreans during the 1923 Japanese earthquake. Violence in contact zones in Northern Ireland or in the memory of South African museum directors trying to comply with Truth and Reconciliation Commission mandates is also an object of scrutiny here. Finally, that vexed, primordial issue of violence – nature or nurture? – is probed.

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Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references.

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Language note

English

Contents

• Preliminary Material / Tobe Levin
• Violence: “Mercurial Gestalt” / Tobe Levin
• Theories of Violence and the Explanation of Ultra-Violent Behaviour / Patricia Turrisi and Michael J. Shaffer
• E Pluribus Unum: European Nationalism or Shopping for Identities in the European Union / Oleg Piletsky
• From Soldier to Torturer? Military Training and Moral Agency / Jessica Wolfendale
• A Literature of Terror and Mourning / Kaiama L. Glover
• Hurtling Toward Darkness Faces of Violence in the Contemporary World / Susanne Chassay
• Violence on the Screen: Psychological Perspectives on Child Abuse in American Popular Film 1992-2001 / Larissa N. Niec , Elizabeth V. Brestan and Linda Anne Valle
• Creative Writing of FGM as an Act of Violence and Human Rights Abuse / Tobe Levin
• Re-Constructing South African Identity after 1994: Museums and Public History / M.K. Flynn and Tony King
• Speaking of Contested Sites: Narrative and Praxis of Spatial Competition in Belfast, Northern Ireland / Karen Lysaght
• Racism and Violence : Anti-Racist Strategies in Intercultural Contact Zones / Eleonore Wildburger
• The Enemy Within: Earthquake, Rumours and Massacre in the Japanese Empire / Jin-hee Lee
• When Saviour Becomes Serpent: The Psychology of Police Violence / William Vlach
• Gender and Execution in Sunbelt America “Equality in Life Presumes Equality in Death”: / Vivien Miller
• Notes on Contributors.

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Other title(s)

Mercurial gestalt

ISBN

• 94-012-0065-3
• 1-4356-5177-4

OCLC

• 723943661
• 240704350

Doi

• 10.1163/9789401200653

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