The contextuality of emotional life -- The contextuality of emotional trauma -- The phenomenology of trauma and the absolutisms of everyday life -- Trauma and temporality -- Trauma and the "ontological unconscious" -- Anxiety, authenticity, and trauma -- Conclusions: siblings in the same darkness
Summary
Trauma and Human Existence effectively interweaves two themes central to emotional trauma--the first of which pertains to the contextuality of emotional life in general, and of the experience of emotional trauma in particular, and the second of which pertains to the recognition that the possibility of emotional trauma is built into the basic constitution of human existence. The volume traces how both themes interconnect, largely as they crystallize in the author's personal experience of traumatic loss. As discussed in the book's final chapter, whether or not this constitutive possibility will b
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 55-58) and index
