Abstract
What is violence ? This may appear a deceptively simple question especially if it is conceived as just physical harm but as psychoanalysis so adeptly shows, violence reaches inwards. Do the effects of violence dehumanise or do they touch upon something central to the human condition ? What enables the movement from outrage to identification with respect to accounts of violence in the clinic? This chapter engages in a reflection on the psychic, social and material facts of violence through the theoretical lens of psychoanalysis . Novels, films and memoirs are examined alongside published clinical material to explore the unmaking and remaking of human bonds , the limits and possibilities of connectedness under extreme circumstances.
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Borossa, J. (2017). Histories of Violence : Outrage, Identification and Analytic Work. In: Auestad, L., Treacher Kabesh, A. (eds) Traces of Violence and Freedom of Thought. Studies in the Psychosocial. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-57502-9_13
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