Studying atrocities poses many challenges for ethnographers, not least of which is how to represent violent experiences, which often exceed articulation. The atrocities perpetrated during the military dictatorship in Argentina are no exception. Yet, during my fieldwork in Buenos Aires, I found that the violence forcefully surfaced in many ethnographic encounters, as a result of my having accidentally absorbed my interlocutors’ psychoanalytic reasoning into my ethnographic praxis. Everyday psychoanalytic practices used among survivors and the relatives of the disappeared, such as catharsis and working through guilt, filtered through ongoing self-reflections and served a crucial role in my emerging understanding of an Argentine “ethics of feelings.” I couple this shared psychoanalytic praxis with creative prose as one integral way of practicing an ethnography of violence. Communicating through words that instill rather than explain the vexed feelings engages readers with the indeterminateness of violence and psychic “depths” in Argentina. This way of doing anthropology is what I call deep ethnography—an emergent form of sensing, talking, thinking, and writing about feelings.

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深度民族志

研究暴行对民族志学家提出了许多挑战，其中最重要的是如何表现暴力经历，这些经历往往超出了清晰度。阿根廷军事独裁时期的暴行也不例外。然而，在我在布宜诺斯艾利斯的实地考察期间，我发现暴力在许多民族志遭遇中有力地浮出水面，这是由于我不小心将对话者的精神分析推理吸收到了我的民族志实践中。在幸存者和失踪者亲属中使用的日常精神分析实践，例如宣泄和通过内疚工作，通过持续的自我反省过滤，并在我对阿根廷“情感伦理”的新兴理解中发挥了关键作用。” 我将这种共享的精神分析实践与创造性的散文相结合，作为实践暴力民族志的一种不可或缺的方式。通过灌输而不是解释烦恼情绪的词语进行交流，让读者了解阿根廷暴力的不确定性和心理“深度”。这种做人类学的方法就是我所说的深度民族志——一种感知、谈论、思考和书写感受的新兴形式。