Existential Vulnerability

Trauma, Death, and Resurrection: A Russian-American Conversation

Robert D. Stolorow | Posted 11.07.2011

Read More: Societal Collapse, War on Terror, Existential Vulnerability, George W. Bush, Collective Trauma, 9/11, Loss, Social Death, Death, Resurrective Ideology, Irreversible Trauma, Collapse of USSR, Vladimir Putin, World Collapse, Homo Mortalis, Man-God, World News
Robert D. Stolorow

(An invited conversation between myself [RDS] and Russian social philosopher and journalist Sergei Roganov [SR].) RDS: You were kind enough to contac...

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The Meaning and the Rhetoric of Evil: Auschwitz and Bin Laden

Robert D. Stolorow | Posted 08.27.2011

Read More: George Bush, Freud, Manichaeism, Trauma, Ronald Reagan, Rwandan Genocide, Terrorism, Japan Nuclear Crisis, Existential Vulnerability, 9/11, Collective Trauma, Heidegger, Holocaust, Hannah Arendt, Evil, Osama Bin Laden, Nihilism, Radical Rvil, Nazis, Resurrective Ideology, Crusades, Auschwitz, Friedrich Nietzsche, Global Warming, Totalitarianism, World News
Robert D. Stolorow

Is there an alternative to ideological illusion and the rhetoric of evil? Yes, there is. We must remember our common human vulnerabilities and bring them into a collective conversation within which our existential anxiety can be held and better borne.

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Death and Resurrection

Robert D. Stolorow | Posted 07.03.2011

Read More: Collective Trauma, 9/11, Osama Bin Laden Dead, Resurrective Ideology, Southern Tornadoes, Japan Nuclear Crisis, Existential Vulnerability, World News
Robert D. Stolorow

The terrorist attack of September 11, 2001 was a devastating collective trauma that inflicted a rip in the fabric of the American psyche. In horrifyin...

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The Lesson of 9/11

Robert D. Stolorow | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Collective Grandiosity, Collective Trauma, 9/11, Bush Administration, Global Terrorism, Existential Vulnerability, September 11th, Al Qaeda, Politics News
Robert D. Stolorow

The attack of 9/11 shattered our collective illusions of safety, inviolability, and grandiose invincibility, illusions that had long been mainstays of the American historical identity.

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Collective Trauma and Existential Anxiety

Robert D. Stolorow | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Economic Collapse, Trauma, Earthquakes, Terrorism, Existential Vulnerability, 9/11, Holocaust, Nuclear Proliferation, BP Oil Spill, Loss, Anxiety, Global Warming, Death, Healthy Living News
Robert D. Stolorow

In my efforts over the last two decades to grasp the nature of emotional trauma (http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780881634679/), I have shown ...

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Blues, Trauma, Finitude

Robert D. Stolorow | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Dialogue, Collective Trauma, Finitude, Trauma, Existential-Vulnerability, African Americans, Slavery, Blues, Healthy Living News
Robert D. Stolorow

With roots in African music, the blues was born in the Mississippi delta as a distinctively African American musical genre in response to the de-humanizing traumas of slavery and its aftermath.

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'Empathic Civilization' in an Age of Trauma

Robert D. Stolorow | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: President Obama, Empathic Understanding, Resurrective Ideology, Trauma, Mirror-Neurons, Economic Crisis, Existential Vulnerability, 9/11, Collective Trauma, Loss, Global Terrorism, Death, Jeremy Rifkin, George W. Bush, Arianna's Reading, The Empathic Civilization, Books News
Robert D. Stolorow

If we can help one another bear the darkness rather than evade it, perhaps one day we will be able to see the light.

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