The trauma of the everyday | Joanna Kavenna, Ian Parker, Sarah Garfinkel, Mark Salter
Philosophy For Our Times
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I Agree With the Charlie and Chocolate Factory Example.
The Charlie and Chocolate Factory example is really interesting because there you have an example of where things are being psychologized. Every day experiences are being turned into some kind of psychological or psychiatric categories in order to explain what's going on. And I think my feeling is that the way that people are taking trauma carries a risk with it. It carries a risk that people carry these psychiatric and medical categories into their everyday lives. We need to be as alive to that possibility as we are to the danger. What we need to do is open things up even more so we can think through what the consequences are of other world historical events that have structured our lives today.
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