Postwar creations of strangers and estrangement: Notes on the ways to recovery and normalization

• Authors: Augustyn Bańka
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This paper is an attempt at exploring the phenomenon of creation of strangers and estrangement as post-war trauma effects. It starts with an observation that post-war is a mental state manifesting itself in individuals as estrangement from themselves, environment, other people, and from the very meaning of life. The post-war trauma triggers a tendency for recovery and normalization of life, which, however, never ends. The paper focuses mainly on four aspects. Firstly, critical moments of the evolution of post-war periods in Europe are discussed, starting with the end of war until now. Secondly, the evolution of change in mental moral grammar in specific post-war periods is looked upon. Thirdly, paths to recovery and normalization through the creation of strangers and estrangement in consecutive, critical post-war periods are indicated. Lastly, this paper tries to present the paradoxes of all the periods of the post-war syndrome.

Keywords

EN

Post-war; estrangement; recovery; normalization

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Journal for Perspectives of Economic Political and Social Integration
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 18
• Issue: 1-2
• Pages: 9-28

Dates

published

2012-01-01

online

2013-02-21

Contributors

author

Augustyn Bańka

• University of Social Sciences and Humanities (SWPS), Department in Katowice, ul. Kossutha 9, 40-844 Katowice, tel. [phone]

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10241-012-0025-3