RT Book
T1 Aftermath: violence and the remaking of a self : with a new preface by the author
A1 Brison, Susan J.
LA English
PP Princeton, New Jersey
PB Princeton University Press
YR 2022
ED Paperback edition
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1833332814
AB A powerful personal narrative of recovery and an illuminating philosophical exploration of traumaOn July 4, 1990, while on a morning walk in southern France, Susan Brison was attacked from behind, severely beaten, sexually assaulted, strangled to unconsciousness, and left for dead. She survived, but her world was destroyed. Her training as a philosopher could not help her make sense of things, and many of her fundamental assumptions about the nature of the self and the world it inhabits were shattered.At once a personal narrative of recovery and a philosophical exploration of trauma, this bravely and beautifully written book examines the undoing and remaking of a self in the aftermath of violence. It explores, from an interdisciplinary perspective, memory and truth, identity and self, autonomy and community. It offers imaginative access to the experience of a rape survivor as well as a reflective critique of a society in which women routinely fear and suffer sexual violence.As Brison observes, trauma disrupts memory, severs past from present, and incapacitates the ability to envision a future. Yet the act of bearing witness, she argues, facilitates recovery by integrating the experience into the survivor's life's story. She also argues for the importance, as well as the hazards, of using first-person narratives in understanding not only trauma, but also larger philosophical questions about what we can know and how we should live
CN 362.88092
SN 9780691245744
K1 Rape Victims : Psychology
K1 Recovered memory
K1 Traumatic shock
K1 Victims of violent crimes : Psychology
K1 Victims of violent crimes : Rehabilitation
K1 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies
K1 Genre
K1 Grief
K1 Hate crime
K1 Hospital bed
K1 Humiliation
K1 I Wish (manhwa)
K1 Identity politics
K1 Illustration
K1 Interdependence
K1 Invisibility
K1 Irony
K1 Irrational number
K1 J. L. Austin
K1 Jurisprudence
K1 Marianne Hirsch
K1 Mary Joe Frug
K1 Medical diagnosis
K1 Metaphysics
K1 Morphine
K1 Mother
K1 Narrative therapy
K1 Narrative
K1 Nausea
K1 Neurochemistry
K1 Non-human
K1 Obstacle
K1 Paul Celan
K1 Paul Fussell
K1 Performative utterance
K1 Personal identity
K1 Personal narrative
K1 Phenomenon
K1 Philosopher
K1 Pierre Janet
K1 Political philosophy
K1 Pornography
K1 Posttraumatic stress disorder
K1 Psychoanalysis
K1 Psychological trauma
K1 Psychotherapy
K1 Rape
K1 Robin West
K1 Sadness
K1 Self-defense
K1 Self-esteem
K1 Series (mathematics)
K1 Sertraline
K1 Sexual assault
K1 Sexual violence
K1 Slavery
K1 Sophie's Choice (novel)
K1 Speech act
K1 Stabbing
K1 Startle response
K1 State of affairs (sociology)
K1 Steroid
K1 Superiority (short story)
K1 Symptom
K1 The New York Times
K1 The Other Hand
K1 Theory
K1 Title IX
K1 Total loss
K1 Unconsciousness
K1 Understanding
K1 Utilitarianism
K1 Victimisation
K1 Violence Against Women Act
K1 Violence
K1 Writing
K1 Academic writing
K1 Activism
K1 Adult
K1 All things
K1 Allergy
K1 Anger
K1 Anthropologist
K1 Anxiety
K1 Aphasia
K1 Assault
K1 Attempt
K1 Aunt
K1 Author
K1 Bertrand Russell
K1 Blame
K1 Childbirth
K1 Childhood memory
K1 Cognition
K1 Concept
K1 Consciousness
K1 Crime
K1 Cultural heritage
K1 Dichotomy
K1 Direct experience
K1 Emotion
K1 Encoding (memory)
K1 Feeling
K1 Femininity
K1 First-person narrative
K1 Friendship
K1 Gewaltkriminalität : Verbrechensopfer
K1 Vergewaltigung : Verbrechensopfer
DO 10.1515/9780691245744