Traces of Violence and Freedom of Thought

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This book questions the political rhetoric of power, in its contemporary and historical forms,

in the light of psychoanalytic thinking. The essays encompass a wide range of theoretical

resources, methodological approaches and geo-political areas. From the role of rhetoric in

political life to the investigation of the enduring consequences of violence and historical

trauma, they share a tension to work within a psychosocial studies framework by unsettling

the common demarcation between the psychological, the social and the political dimensions.

The strong attention paid to historical contexts unsettles the dominant understanding

of temporality which separates the past and the present. The authors, either explicitly

or implicitly, point to the fusion of temporalities and argue that the past persists in the

present relentlessly. Due to its theoretical engagements and the case studies provided, this

interdisciplinary collection will be of value to postgraduate and undergraduate students of

psychology, philosophy, politics and history.