- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Foreword: Philosophy in Furs
- Translators’ Note
- Introduction
- Approach
- Origins
- Animality
- Taking Care
- Intelligence
- Potential
- The Sensory Celebration (I)
- Sales Pitch
- Language Sources
- Justice and Forgiveness
- East
- A Silent Transformation
- Feeling and Sensibility
- The Symbolic Force of Gentleness
- Free Form
- Pure Gentleness?
- Patrolling
- Sensory Celebration (II)
- Counterfeits
- Exhaustion
- Penumbra
- “Master and Man,” by Tolstoy
- The Sensory Celebration (III)
- Sublimation
- Cruelties
- In Hell
- Listening
- Trauma and Creation
- Beyond the Confines
- Clandestine Gentleness
- The Sensory Celebration (IV)
- Childhood
- Gentleness of Melancholy
- Dolce Vita
- A Gentle Revolution
- Notes
- Index
In Hell
In Hell
- Chapter:
- (p.75) In Hell
- Source:
- Power of Gentleness
- Author(s):
Anne Dufourmantelle
, Katherine Payne, Vincent Sallé- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
Every being is implicated in the devastation that took place in the twentieth century: Nazism, the bomb, genocides, mass deportations. When trauma occurs, it defeats the very possibility of being a subject within it—except in rare exceptions when lucid witnesses can confront it for what it is without being crushed. Something devastating falls upon us. And yet that is when it is most crucial to summon gentleness. W. H. R. Rivers demonstrated this in his regeneration of WW I soldiers.
Keywords: devastation, genocide, gentleness, Holocaust, listening, Shoah, trauma, violence, war
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Foreword: Philosophy in Furs
- Translators’ Note
- Introduction
- Approach
- Origins
- Animality
- Taking Care
- Intelligence
- Potential
- The Sensory Celebration (I)
- Sales Pitch
- Language Sources
- Justice and Forgiveness
- East
- A Silent Transformation
- Feeling and Sensibility
- The Symbolic Force of Gentleness
- Free Form
- Pure Gentleness?
- Patrolling
- Sensory Celebration (II)
- Counterfeits
- Exhaustion
- Penumbra
- “Master and Man,” by Tolstoy
- The Sensory Celebration (III)
- Sublimation
- Cruelties
- In Hell
- Listening
- Trauma and Creation
- Beyond the Confines
- Clandestine Gentleness
- The Sensory Celebration (IV)
- Childhood
- Gentleness of Melancholy
- Dolce Vita
- A Gentle Revolution
- Notes
- Index