Table of Contents

1. Individualization, Decontextualization and Depoliticization in the Biomedical PTSD-Approach to Trauma

2. A Critique of the Ethics of Human Rights in its Relation to PTSD

3. The Lacanian Concept of the Real and the Psychoanalytical Take on Trauma

4. The Lacanian Concept of the Real in Relation to the Ethics of Psychoanalysis

5. The Lacanian Concept of the Real in Relation to Politics and Collectice Trauma

6. Act and Event: Ethics and the Political in Trauma

About the Author

Gregory Bistoen is a Doctoral Researcher at the Department of Psychoanalysis and Clinical Consulting at Ghent University, Belgium, and a Clinical Psychologist and Psychoanalyst in Private Practice.