Original scientific paper

https://doi.org/10.20901/pm.59.4.04

Representing Trauma in the Arts: the Curious Case of “Quo Vadis, Aida?”

Ron Eyerman orcid.org/0000-0002-6332-5414 ; Yale University, New Haven CT, USA

Abstract

Applying Jurgen Habermas’ distinction between the three knowledge interests‎ guiding scientific research, this article identifies three approaches to ‘trauma’,‎ a clinical approach, rooted in a medical model, a literary approach, rooted‎in psychoanalysis, and a cultural sociological approach. After elaborating on‎ each of these perspectives, and the various forms through which trauma is ‎represented aesthetically, the three are applied in an analysis of the film “Quo‎Vadis, Aida?”. It is argued that although they entail different notions of trauma,‎ the three are not mutually exclusive and can be combined in a rich understanding ‎of aesthetic representation.‎

Keywords

Cultural Trauma; Clinical; Medical, Literary; Jasmila Zbanic

Hrčak ID:

288196

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/288196

Publication date:

22.12.2022.

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