![]() ![]() ![]() This professor was still at home or going to his first school when Velikovsky, a doctor trained in psychiatry by Freud’s pupil Wilhelm Stekel, came up with “cultural amnesia.” Alas, the doctor has been a victim of the process. If you believe Hobbes was looking back from the city on the hill of modern enlightenment, please remember that they still hung convicts in cages and left heads on stakes on London Bridge and other places for the people to see.Ī careless Wikipedia read could lead you to think Russell Jacoby coined the term in the mid 1970’s. Perhaps its course is like the background violence that (still) surrounds life in many settings too much like the “nasty, brutish and short” Hobbes supposed of earlier times. Perhaps it is most like our reactions to vicarious trauma which is at some distance from the individual. ![]() As amnesia is one of the defense mechanisms of man (or woman) so social amnesia is a defense against collective traumas. So can institutions.īecause I throw the term “social amnesia” around so freely, I want to take a little time to give it a chance to become part of your tool-set for interpreting the world at large. Just as the child violently abused might loose recall, so may a society loose the truth of its past. Just as individuals have mechanisms to forget inconvenient truths or traumatic events from the past, so does the community, nation and globe. HFS clients enjoy state-of-the-art warehousing, real-time access to critical business data, accounts receivable management and collection, and unparalleled customer service.Social Amnesia and American Corrections and Rehabilitation HFS provides print and digital distribution for a distinguished list of university presses and nonprofit institutions. MUSE delivers outstanding results to the scholarly community by maximizing revenues for publishers, providing value to libraries, and enabling access for scholars worldwide. Project MUSE is a leading provider of digital humanities and social sciences content, providing access to journal and book content from nearly 300 publishers. With warehouses on three continents, worldwide sales representation, and a robust digital publishing program, the Books Division connects Hopkins authors to scholars, experts, and educational and research institutions around the world. With critically acclaimed titles in history, science, higher education, consumer health, humanities, classics, and public health, the Books Division publishes 150 new books each year and maintains a backlist in excess of 3,000 titles. The division also manages membership services for more than 50 scholarly and professional associations and societies. The Journals Division publishes 85 journals in the arts and humanities, technology and medicine, higher education, history, political science, and library science. The Press is home to the largest journal publication program of any U.S.-based university press. One of the largest publishers in the United States, the Johns Hopkins University Press combines traditional books and journals publishing units with cutting-edge service divisions that sustain diversity and independence among nonprofit, scholarly publishers, societies, and associations. ![]()
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