Trauma, ethics and the political beyond PTSD : the dislocations of the real / Gregory Bistoen.

Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I The Biomedical Approach to Trauma and the Ethics of Human Rights; 1 Individualization, Decontextualization and Depoliticization in the Biomedical PTSD-Approach to Trauma; 2 A Critique of the Ethics of Human Rights in Its Relation to PTSD; Part II The Dislocations of the Real; 3 The Lacanian Concept of the Real and the Psychoanalytical Take on Trauma; 4 The Lacanian Concept of the Real in Relation to the Ethics of Psychoanalysis

5 The Lacanian Concept of the Real in Relation to Politics and Collective Trauma6 Act and Event: Ethics and the Political in Trauma; Notes; References; Index