Who Is the Sufferer and What Is Being Suffered? Subjectivity in Times of Social Malaise

Nancy Caro Hollander, Ph.D., is Professor Emerita of Latin America History, California State University, and a Research Psychoanalyst in private practice in Oakland, CA. She is a member and on the faculty of the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California. Hollander has been a documentary filmmaker and, for 13 years, produced and hosted the radio program “Just a Minute” for Pacifica Radio, in which she explored themes related to psychoanalysis, feminism, Latin American revolutionary and counter-revolutionary movements, and ideology in popular film. Her most recent publications include “Trauma as Ideology: Accountability in the ‘Intractable Conflict’” (Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society, 21, 59–80), “The Freedom to Speak: Psychopolitical Meanings in Argentine History” (International Journal of Psychoanalytic Studies, 13, 224–232), and Uprooted Minds: Surviving the Politics of Terror in the Americas (Routledge, 2010).
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