Some day I’ll write more about Naomi Klein’s liberal use of the term “trauma” and it how it exactly mirrors Wolf’s use of the same term but I will leave that for the end of Traumatized.
Thanks for this, and the Burgis link. Another issue w the book is that Klein doesn’t really engage w the Jungian idea of the shadow. Freud’s uncanny is very compelling but Freud is mostly interested in repression. Like most shadow stories, she seems to destroy or discredit her shadow, assuming there can only be one. A Jungian reading would mean she’d have to learn to love her shadow and integrate with it. And to Burgis’ point it would mean a real engagement with her contradictions. But that would be radical and it’s easier to destroy the thing you cannot face.
I think the best part of her book is her reading of the changeling myth. It’s Marie-Louis von Franz good. But it’s a rabbit hole in relation to the rest of the book.
Some day I’ll write more about Naomi Klein’s liberal use of the term “trauma” and it how it exactly mirrors Wolf’s use of the same term but I will leave that for the end of Traumatized.
Thanks for this, and the Burgis link. Another issue w the book is that Klein doesn’t really engage w the Jungian idea of the shadow. Freud’s uncanny is very compelling but Freud is mostly interested in repression. Like most shadow stories, she seems to destroy or discredit her shadow, assuming there can only be one. A Jungian reading would mean she’d have to learn to love her shadow and integrate with it. And to Burgis’ point it would mean a real engagement with her contradictions. But that would be radical and it’s easier to destroy the thing you cannot face.
I think the best part of her book is her reading of the changeling myth. It’s Marie-Louis von Franz good. But it’s a rabbit hole in relation to the rest of the book.
Many thanks for a fine read, Catherine—and thank you especially for putting Yale in its place.
Thank you for reading Ajay, and for your kind words
Who might "petite bourgeois" Jewish people blame for their own humiliations and their own frustrations with "modernity and standardization"?
What are you talking about? There is nothing about Jewishness here.
The Adorno Frankfurt school references - my criticism is that they never apply or explore their theories within THEIR OWN community.