Chapter 10 Tortured and disappeared bodies

The author pursues the hypothesis that tortured bodies are the sites of ‘knowing’ for torturous societies, the ‘places’ into which unprocessed social contents are stored and interrogated through torture by the ruling group and/or made disappear through enforced disappearances. The combination of cri...

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Hovedforfatter: Luci, Monica
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description The author pursues the hypothesis that tortured bodies are the sites of ‘knowing’ for torturous societies, the ‘places’ into which unprocessed social contents are stored and interrogated through torture by the ruling group and/or made disappear through enforced disappearances. The combination of crimes such as torture and enforced disappearance perpetrated by states represents an extreme social case that illustrates the processes leading to the social dynamics of massive denial (‘knowing and not knowing’) of what is happening in a society slipped into a monolithic societal state for perpetrators, bystanders and victims. The concept of embeddedness expresses the notion that social actors exist within relational, institutional, and cultural contexts and cannot be seen as atomized decision-makers. The body of the victim of torture and enforced disappearance seems to be the site where, in case of severe social violence, the ‘truth’ is stored and can be regained, together with the possibility of collective healing that repairs social ties, be it a body that survived torture, or one that succumbed, like in the case of many disappeared. Psychotherapy with torture survivors and the collective process of restoring the historical truth in societies that lived enforced disappearances seem to point in this direction.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1317882025-06-24T07:01:06Z Chapter 10 Tortured and disappeared bodies Luci, Monica Disappearance, Luci, Torture, Enforced, Bianchi, Human, Psychoanalysis bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JP Politics & government::JPV Political control & freedoms::JPVH Human rights bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JM Psychology bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JM Psychology::JMA Psychological theory & schools of thought::JMAF Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology) The author pursues the hypothesis that tortured bodies are the sites of ‘knowing’ for torturous societies, the ‘places’ into which unprocessed social contents are stored and interrogated through torture by the ruling group and/or made disappear through enforced disappearances. The combination of crimes such as torture and enforced disappearance perpetrated by states represents an extreme social case that illustrates the processes leading to the social dynamics of massive denial (‘knowing and not knowing’) of what is happening in a society slipped into a monolithic societal state for perpetrators, bystanders and victims. The concept of embeddedness expresses the notion that social actors exist within relational, institutional, and cultural contexts and cannot be seen as atomized decision-makers. The body of the victim of torture and enforced disappearance seems to be the site where, in case of severe social violence, the ‘truth’ is stored and can be regained, together with the possibility of collective healing that repairs social ties, be it a body that survived torture, or one that succumbed, like in the case of many disappeared. Psychotherapy with torture survivors and the collective process of restoring the historical truth in societies that lived enforced disappearances seem to point in this direction. 2023-12-07T05:07:43Z 2023-12-07T05:07:43Z 2023-12-06T13:21:42Z 2024 chapter https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/85788 9781032320588 9781032320571 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/131788 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution 4.0 International Attribution 4.0 International Attribution 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/85788/1/9781003312642_10.4324_9781003312642-14.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/85788/1/9781003312642_10.4324_9781003312642-14.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/85788/1/9781003312642_10.4324_9781003312642-14.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781003312642-14 10.4324/9781003312642-14 fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 Psychoanalytic, Psychosocial, and Human Rights Perspectives on Enforced Disappearance University of Essex ca077e3f-1580-4778-b4ea-a7b92f991f35 9781032320588 9781032320571 Routledge 18 open access
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bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JM Psychology
bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JM Psychology::JMA Psychological theory & schools of thought::JMAF Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology)
Luci, Monica
Chapter 10 Tortured and disappeared bodies
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bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JP Politics & government::JPV Political control & freedoms::JPVH Human rights
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