{"title":"The Trauma of the Image: Prisoner ‘Abuse’ in Abu Ghraib Prison","authors":"jan jagodzinski","doi":"10.3138/SIM.6.1.004","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The scandal surrounding the images of abuse and torture at Abu Ghraib prison is explored by examining the conditions as to their possibility. A Freudian-Lacanian psychoanalytic approach is utilized to explore the psyche of such inhumanity. The essay ends on a sobering note as to the future of the Iraqi conflict.","PeriodicalId":206087,"journal":{"name":"Simile: Studies in Media & Information Literacy Education","volume":"120 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2006-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"6","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Simile: Studies in Media & Information Literacy Education","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.3138/SIM.6.1.004","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The scandal surrounding the images of abuse and torture at Abu Ghraib prison is explored by examining the conditions as to their possibility. A Freudian-Lacanian psychoanalytic approach is utilized to explore the psyche of such inhumanity. The essay ends on a sobering note as to the future of the Iraqi conflict.