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Abu Ghraib, the torture memos, and the psychosocial dynamics of torture: a dossier

Abu Ghraib, the torture memos, and the psychosocial dynamics of torture: a dossier Int. J. Appl. Psychoanal. Studies 3: 168–176 (2006) DOI: 10.1002/aps Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd Abu Ghraib, the Torture Memos, and the Psychosocial Dynamics of Torture • How does the specific form of the images (digital technology that enabled mass distribution) matter to their effect – on the perpetrators, on the victims, and on viewers of different cultural backgrounds who occupy different subject positions? The third question seemed especially appropriate to the project of grounding our psychic analyses in the historical specificity and uniqueness of the war. It placed the photos at the critical juncture between psychic and historical modes of analysis. It assumed, on one hand, that the abuses were an effect of the “global war on terror,” which the events’ participants agreed must be traced to its historical causes and defined in relation to its historically specific modes of operation: asymmetrical warfare, “precision” bombing, embedded journalism, hidden detention centers, the redefinition of human rights violations as not merely expedient but legal, a geographical dispersion and temporal open-endedness that make this a truly “postmodern” war, and the dissemination of images through a digital technology that is at once indispensable to the “war on terror” http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies Wiley

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1742-3341
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Int. J. Appl. Psychoanal. Studies 3: 168–176 (2006) DOI: 10.1002/aps Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd Abu Ghraib, the Torture Memos, and the Psychosocial Dynamics of Torture • How does the specific form of the images (digital technology that enabled mass distribution) matter to their effect – on the perpetrators, on the victims, and on viewers of different cultural backgrounds who occupy different subject positions? The third question seemed especially appropriate to the project of grounding our psychic analyses in the historical specificity and uniqueness of the war. It placed the photos at the critical juncture between psychic and historical modes of analysis. It assumed, on one hand, that the abuses were an effect of the “global war on terror,” which the events’ participants agreed must be traced to its historical causes and defined in relation to its historically specific modes of operation: asymmetrical warfare, “precision” bombing, embedded journalism, hidden detention centers, the redefinition of human rights violations as not merely expedient but legal, a geographical dispersion and temporal open-endedness that make this a truly “postmodern” war, and the dissemination of images through a digital technology that is at once indispensable to the “war on terror”

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International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies – Wiley

Published: Jun 1, 2006

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