PANEL 1 /// COLLECTIVE TRAUMA
CONVENOR: BERNHARD SYLLA
All enquiries about the panel should be sent to [email protected]
The number of studies on the trauma phenomenon has been increasing significantly over the last three decades. One of the direct consequences of this trend is the now remarkable transdisciplinary relevance of the trauma phenomenon. Besides psychology, psychoanalysis, psychiatry, medicine, analyses in the field of sociology, history, literature studies, cultural studies and philosophy have become very numerous. As far as philosophy is concerned, the phenomenon of trauma can be considered from numerous points of view, such as the ethical, political, ontological or anthropological.
Due to the extraordinary wide range of the trauma topic, the focus of this panel will be on the following questions / problems:
All enquiries about the panel should be sent to [email protected]
The number of studies on the trauma phenomenon has been increasing significantly over the last three decades. One of the direct consequences of this trend is the now remarkable transdisciplinary relevance of the trauma phenomenon. Besides psychology, psychoanalysis, psychiatry, medicine, analyses in the field of sociology, history, literature studies, cultural studies and philosophy have become very numerous. As far as philosophy is concerned, the phenomenon of trauma can be considered from numerous points of view, such as the ethical, political, ontological or anthropological.
Due to the extraordinary wide range of the trauma topic, the focus of this panel will be on the following questions / problems:
- Is the term collective trauma justified?
- Are terms with collective connotations such as cultural trauma, symbolic trauma, chosen trauma, etc. justified?
- Current debates on specific collective traumas, such as Holocaust trauma, trauma due to ethnic persecution, terrorist attacks, trauma due to social discrimination (gender, race, religion), refugee trauma, etc.
- Differences between collective and individual trauma
- Is it justified to speak of humanity traumas?
- Are there prospective traumas (e.g., due to impending ecological catastrophes)?
- Aspects of the political treatment of trauma victims (social recognition, compensation policies, etc.)
- Collective scapegoating, spirals of violence (e.g., the Freudian thesis, that identification with collectively experienced traumas can lead to new violence)
- Governments and genocide (Are genocides state-induced? Are states / governments responsible for genocides?)
- Other topics
