This book deals with a series of problems associated with the contemporary psychiatric approach to trauma, encapsulated in the diagnostic category of PTSD, by means of a philosophical analysis inspired by the works of Jacques Lacan, Slavoj Zizek and Alain Badiou.

Autorentext

Gregory Bistoen is a Doctoral Researcher at the Department of Psychoanalysis and Clinical Consulting at Ghent University, Belgium, and a Clinical Psychologist and Psychoanalyst in Private Practice.

Inhalt

1. Individualization, Decontextualization and Depoliticization in the Biomedical PTSD-Approach to Trauma

2. A Critique of the Ethics of Human Rights in its Relation to PTSD

3. The Lacanian Concept of the Real and the Psychoanalytical Take on Trauma

4. The Lacanian Concept of the Real in Relation to the Ethics of Psychoanalysis

5. The Lacanian Concept of the Real in Relation to Politics and Collectice Trauma

6. Act and Event: Ethics and the Political in Trauma