This book demonstrates a new, interdisciplinary approach to life writing about torture that situates torture firmly within its socio-political context, as opposed to extending the long line of representations written in the idiom of the proverbial dark chamber. By dismantling th…
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Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The phenomenon of torture -- Torture : what is it? : a definition of the field of inquiry -- Torturous societies -- Social actors of torture -- A psychoanalytic understanding of torture -- Paradoxical multiple self states and monolithic self st…
Torture, Psychoanalysis and Human Rights contributes to the development of that field of study called p̀sycho-social' that is presently more and more committed to providing understanding of social phenomena, making use of the explicative perspective of psychoanalysis. The book se…
Torture, Psychoanalysis and Human Rights contributes to the development of that field of study called 'psycho-social' that is presently more and more committed to providing understanding of social phenomena, making use of the explicative perspective of psychoanalysis. Monica Luc…