Chapter 10 Tortured and disappeared bodies The problem of 'knowing'

• Main Author: Luci, Monica (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Taylor & Francis 2024
• Subjects: Human rights; Psychology; Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology); Disappearance, Luci, Torture, Enforced, Bianchi, Human, Psychoanalysis
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

The author pursues the hypothesis that tortured bodies are the sites of 'knowing' for torturous societies, the 'places' into which unprocessed social contents are stored and interrogated through torture by the ruling group and/or made disappear through enforced disappearances. Th...