All Major Terms from Cultural Studies

What is Trauma Studies? Trauma Studies is a relatively new area in Cultural Studies that explores the impact of the disruptive experience of trauma on individuals and societies by analyzing its psychological, cultural and literary significance. What theories are involved? Trauma Studies bring together psychological approaches with poststructuralism, postcolonialism and other socio-cultural theories. When did Trauma Studies begin? Trauma Studies began in the 1990s drawing upon Sigmund Freud and his contemporaries like Joseph Breuer (who co-authored Studies on Hysteria with Freud),  Jean-Martin Charcot (who for the first time studied the relationship between trauma and mental illness), his student Pierre Janet , Hermann Oppenheim , Abram Kardiner (who studied war trauma), Morton Prince , etc., and their work on hysteria. What does Trauma Studies explore? How identity and memory are affected by trauma. How the individual's conception of the external world and social ...