Towards a Critical Trauma Studies: A Response to Felix Lang 2018-11-13 application/pdf https://archiv.ub.uni-marburg.de/ep/0003/2018/229/cover.png 2018 11 Trauma Vol 11 (2018) urn:nbn:de:hebis:04-ep0003-2018-2292 PeriodicalPart Periodical Philipps-Universität Marburg urn:nbn:de:hebis:04-ep00032 General history of Asia; Middle East https://archiv.ub.uni-marburg.de/ep/0003/cover.png 2196-629X 2714728-9 2013 Middle East - Topics + Arguments Center for Near and Middle Eastern Studies (CNMS) English Trauma urn:nbn:de:hebis:04-ep0003-2018-229-78121 2018-11-13 application/pdf 2018-11-13 https://archiv.ub.uni-marburg.de/ep/0003/2018/229/7812/7812.png 2018-11-14 Publikationsserver der Universitätsbibliothek Marburg Universitätsbibliothek Marburg In this response, I agree with Felix Lang about the need to problematize trauma studies’ prevalent underlying assumptions. However, I suggest that we should go a step further, namely towards a phenomenological account of trauma rooted in Frankfurt School critical theory. Such an approach enables us to pay attention to the political power dynamics within which trauma studies is enmeshed, and argue against the reification and objectification of trauma. It also allows for an intersubjective (re)interpretation of trauma that explicitly grounds the experiences of trauma in social and political contexts. Phenomenology Politics article Matthies-Boon, Vivienne Matthies-Boon Vivienne 2018 Critical Theory https://doi.org/10.17192/meta.2018.11.7812