FORTÆLLINGER OM FEDTSUGERE OG VOLD: Mod en forståelse af skabelsen af voldens betydning

Abstract

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