Sarah Kamens, turn: theories of trauma in the age of linguistics.
Kamens' thesis investigates the philosophical-psychological framework of "trauma studies," delving into its intersection with linguistic-oriented philosophy. The author puts to question the not-so-implicit relation between the notion of "trauma" and the (recent) turn towards and (even more recent) turn away from linguistic-oriented philosophy. The argument is as follows: reactions against linguistic philosophy are too early, too reductionistic, and too dangerous at a time when, among other things, narrative methods in psychology still abound. Discussions and meditations included the topics of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in clinical psychology, psychotherapeutic theories of metaphor, and psychoanalytic conceptions of trauma. Working its way through notions of suffering and temporality in postmodernity, modernity, and our own forgotten era, this thesis expounds upon the history of philosophy, psychology, and psychoanalysis, not forgetting the implicit and explicit ways in which these fields have intersected, particularly during the latter half of the last century.