
FORTÆLLINGER OM FEDTSUGERE OG VOLD: Mod en forståelse af skabelsen af voldens betydning
Author(s) -
Henrik Rønsbo
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
antropologi
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2596-5425
pISSN - 0906-3021
DOI - 10.7146/ta.v0i46.107132
Subject(s) - meaning (existential) , argument (complex analysis) , sociology , psychoanalysis , psychology , epistemology , philosophy , medicine
During the last ten years it has been argued
by anthropologists that violence is
constadictory to processes through which
meaning is created and sustained, i.e.
everyday life. This argument derives from
the empirical branches of psychology and
psychiatry, which, since the early seventies,
have formalized various concepts
regarding post-traumatic stress, the best
known of which is the concept of PTSD.
Taking a point of departure in an alternative
understanding of violence as the
production of enigmatic signifiers, rather
than the destruction of signification and
meaning, the author demonstrates how
enigmatic signifiers through processes of
entextualization are circulated. Hence