文档介绍：Deracination
SUNY Series in Psychoanalysis and Culture
Henry Sussman, editor
Deracination
Historiocity, Hiroshima, and the
Tragic Imperative
Walter A. Davis
State University of New York Press
Cover illustration: detail of Hiroshima, mixed media, 1999, by Breck J. Hapner,
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Davis, Walter A., 1942–
Deracination : historiocity, Hiroshima, and the tragic imperative / Walter A. Davis.
p. cm. —(SUNY series in psychoanalysis and culture)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0–7914–4833–9 (alk. paper) — ISBN 0–7914–4834–7 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Social sciences and psychoanalysis. 2. Political psychology.
3. History—Philosophy. I. Title. II. Series.
S65 D38 2001
901—dc21
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10 9 8 7 6 5 4 4 3 2 1
TO
Sensei Bill Evans
(1947–1998)
who led me to the inner readiness
AND
Stephen Lacey
(1943–2000)
who taught me how to write
Contents
Acknowledgments xiii
Preface xv
One
THE WAY TO HIROSHIMA 1
I. Only Connect: Trauma in/and History 1
II. The Concept of Crisis and a Hermeneutics of 7
Engagement
III. Only Connect: Why Hiroshima? 9
A. Fact-Document 10
B. Explanation 11
C. Subjectivity an