[PDF.31du] Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character

Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character

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 | #1142247 in Books |  Atheneum |  1994-05-26 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.50 x6.75 x.75l, | File type: PDF | 246 pages

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| The War that Never Ends|By Elizagape|Outstanding insight into the issues of combat trauma. The link with Achilles is superb in terms of discussing the similarities and differences between modern and ancient warfare and the individual consequences of shaping civilized human beings into killers of other human beings. Looking forward to obtaining Odysseus in America. As an ongo|.com |Shay works from an intriguing premise: that the study of the great Homeric epic of war, The Iliad, can illuminate our understanding of Vietnam, and vice versa. Along the way, he compares the battlefield experiences of men like Agamemnon and Patroclus wit

Dr. Shay has spent the past several years treating Vietnam-combat veterans afflicted with post-traumatic stress disorder. He has come to see an overwhelming and undeniable similarity to the experience of soldiers in Homer's Iliad, including Achilles' shrinking moral and social world and his feelings of betrayal and being "already dead".

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