Title: Mass Violence and the Self
Description: "Examines the visual and textual media depicting personal suffering caused by incidents of mass violence in France from 1560 to 1880 that helped to provoke repeated collective traumas, which in turn forged new social identities and fostered the psychological processes of the modern self"--
Subjects: Social history, Political violence, Psychic trauma, Memory, Identity (psychology), Group identity, Self (philosophy), Violence, History, Collective memory