Book 2019

Mass Violence and the Self

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Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2019

Social history
Political violence
Psychic trauma
Memory
Identity (psychology)
Group identity
Self (philosophy)
Violence

"Examines the visual and textual media depicting personal suffering caused by incidents of mass violence in France from 1560 to 1880 that helped to provoke repeated collective traumas, which in turn forged new social identities and fostered the psychological processes of the modern self"--