Demostraciones públicas del sufrimiento privado: Utilidades colectivas de la escritura del trauma

Suffering is perhaps one of the most private yet most shared experiences that exists. It is common for individuals as well as whole communities to feel compelled to express their pain by recounting it to others. In fact, when an entire group has been subjected to an ordeal, the need for verbalizatio...

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Main Author: Patricia San José Rico
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Language:English
Published: Centro de Estudos Sociais da Universidade de Coimbra 2017-06-01
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/eces/2210
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description Suffering is perhaps one of the most private yet most shared experiences that exists. It is common for individuals as well as whole communities to feel compelled to express their pain by recounting it to others. In fact, when an entire group has been subjected to an ordeal, the need for verbalization is joined with other sociological imperatives such as the self-imposed obligation to give testimony on the behalf of those who cannot, the need to evoke empathy, or even the intent to promote a greater sense of collectiveness amongst the survivors. Using literary as well as autobiographical narratives of trauma, and the opinions of experts, this article demonstrates how trauma writing of the individual, but more specifically of the collective, can be employed for socio-political, cultural and psychological purposes in order to extract collective utility from individual verbalization.
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spelling doaj-art-1bd04490d9fb4a43813f58d1e4323e9b2025-08-20T02:20:26ZengCentro de Estudos Sociais da Universidade de Coimbrae-cadernos ces1647-07372017-06-012710.4000/eces.2210Demostraciones públicas del sufrimiento privado: Utilidades colectivas de la escritura del traumaPatricia San José RicoSuffering is perhaps one of the most private yet most shared experiences that exists. It is common for individuals as well as whole communities to feel compelled to express their pain by recounting it to others. In fact, when an entire group has been subjected to an ordeal, the need for verbalization is joined with other sociological imperatives such as the self-imposed obligation to give testimony on the behalf of those who cannot, the need to evoke empathy, or even the intent to promote a greater sense of collectiveness amongst the survivors. Using literary as well as autobiographical narratives of trauma, and the opinions of experts, this article demonstrates how trauma writing of the individual, but more specifically of the collective, can be employed for socio-political, cultural and psychological purposes in order to extract collective utility from individual verbalization.https://journals.openedition.org/eces/2210representationcollective traumaliteraturepsychoanalysistrauma writing
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Demostraciones públicas del sufrimiento privado: Utilidades colectivas de la escritura del trauma
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trauma writing
title Demostraciones públicas del sufrimiento privado: Utilidades colectivas de la escritura del trauma
title_full Demostraciones públicas del sufrimiento privado: Utilidades colectivas de la escritura del trauma
title_fullStr Demostraciones públicas del sufrimiento privado: Utilidades colectivas de la escritura del trauma
title_full_unstemmed Demostraciones públicas del sufrimiento privado: Utilidades colectivas de la escritura del trauma
title_short Demostraciones públicas del sufrimiento privado: Utilidades colectivas de la escritura del trauma
title_sort demostraciones publicas del sufrimiento privado utilidades colectivas de la escritura del trauma
topic representation
collective trauma
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psychoanalysis
trauma writing
url https://journals.openedition.org/eces/2210
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