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Love and the Trauma of Resistance in Gayl Jones's Corregidora
Callaloo, 2006Shifting between scenes of nineteenth-century slave life in Brazil and contempo? rary urban America, Gayl Jones's Corregidora examines continuities between the physical enslavement of black women and modern cycles of abuse. Although the Corregidora women are subjected to immense violence and exploitation, Jones foregrounds their demand to overcome and ...
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Romance, Trauma and Repetition: Testing the Limits of Love
2013The need for, yet denial of, repetition constitutes a paradox that has long confounded the theorisation of romantic love. Inasmuch as many of our most enduring defi nitions of love regard its non-repeatability as key (“love is forever,” “you and no other,” etc.), and others (particularly those stemming from psychoanalysis) regard the human subject’s ...
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‘Misery Loves Company’: Sexual Trauma, Psychoanalysis and the Market for Misery
Journal of Medical Humanities, 2012This article examines sexual 'misery memoirs', focusing on author/reader and genre/market relationships in the context of models of trauma and child sexual abuse. It shows that the success of sexual 'misery memoirs' is inextricably bound up with the popular dissemination of a feminist-psychoanalytic model of traumatic memory that has taken place since ...
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Back from the Front: Combat Trauma, Love, and the Family
Smith College Studies in Social Work, 2009Matsakis, Aphrodite, Ph.D. (2007). Baltimore, MD: Sidran Institute Press. Aphrodite Matsakis has written a book that is timely and much needed given the mounting number of Veterans returning from t...
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Love trauma vs. prolonged grief
Journal of Psychological and Educational ResearchThis study aimed to differentiate love trauma from prolonged grief following romantic relationship dissolution by identifying their common and distinct predictors. Using a cross-sectional design, we examined sociodemographic/relational factors and constructs like infidelity, intrusive thoughts, relationship satisfaction, breakup intention, conflict ...
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The Roles of Love, Attachment, and Altruism in the Adjustment to Military Trauma
2007AbstractThis chapter summarizes research on the associations among love in the form of a secure adult attachment, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and altruism. The chapter is organized into five sections. The first section briefly reviews PTSD and its symptom clusters.
Bita Ghafoori, Robert Hierholzer
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The Origin of Love: Ovidian Lovesickness and Trauma in Venus and Adonis
2014During the infamous War of the Theatres (or Poetomachia), Ben Jonson lampooned writers who had affiliated themselves with the Ovid movement of the 1590s in his satirical Poetaster (first performed in 1601). In this comedy, Jonson directly pokes fun at fellow dramatists John Marston and Thomas Dekker and indirectly criticizes Ovidian poet- playwrights ...
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Precarity, Trauma, Addiction, and Love in Philosophical Counseling
Language around trauma, anxiety, and burnout is pervasive in our current climate, where it seems like we need superhuman powers just to make it through the day.This book argues that the expectations and living conditions of our society are uniquely destabilizing, producing a “techno-precarious performance self” that markets itself as a product, gets ...openaire +1 more source