Trans-generational trauma and the other : dialogues across history and difference / edited by Sue Grand and Jill Salberg.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Grand, Sue, editor.

Salberg, Jill, editor.

Series:

Relational perspectives book series ; v. 83.

Relational perspectives book series ; vol. 83

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychic trauma.

Intergenerational relations--Psychological aspects.

Intergenerational relations.

Psychoanalysis and history.

Psychological aspects.

Physical Description:

xvi, 246 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.

Summary:

Often, our trans-generational legacies are stories of 'us' and 'them' that never reach their terminus. We carry fixed narratives, and the ghosts of our perpetrators and of our victims. We long to be subjects in our own history, but keep reconstituting the Other as an object in their own history. Trans-generational Trauma and the Other argues that healing requires us to engage with the Other who carries a corresponding pre-history. Without this dialogue, alienated ghosts can become persecutory objects, in psyche, politics, and culture. This volume examines the violent loyalties of the past, the barriers to dialogue with our Other, and complicates the inter-subjectivity of Big History. Identifying our inherited narratives and relinquishing splitting, these authors ask how we can re-cast our Other, and move beyond dysfunctional repetitions - in our individual lives and in society. Featuring rich clinical material, Trans-generational Trauma and the Other provides an invaluable guide to expanding the application of trans-generational transmission in psychoanalysis. It will appeal to psychoanalysts, psychoanalytic psychotherapists and trauma experts. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I When Our Histories Collide 9

Introduction: Haunted Dialogues: When Histories Collide / C. Fred Alford Alford, C. Fred 11

1 Representing, Theorizing and Reconfiguring the Concept of Transgenerational Haunting in Order to Facilitate Healing / Maurice Apprey Apprey, Maurice 16

2 Skin Memories: On Race, Love and Loss / Sue Grand Grand, Sue 38

3 When the Shadow of the Holocaust Falls upon the Analytic Dyad / Deborah Liner Liner, Deborah 59

Part II Political Legacies, Encrypted Hauntings 81

Introduction: Confronting the Other Within / Kirkland C. Vaughans Vaughans, Kirkland C. 83

4 The Demonization of Ethel Rosenberg / Adrienne Harris Harris, Adrienne 85

5 The Endurance of Slavery's Traumas and 'Truths' / Janice Gump Gump, Janice 102

6 Dialogues in No Man's Land / Ofra Bloch Bloch, Ofra 120

7 Racialized Enactments and Normative Unconscious Processes: Where Haunted Identities Meet / Lynne Layton Layton, Lynne 144

Part III Reassembling Narrative and Culture: Bridging Otherness 165

Introduction: Healing Haunted Memories: From Monuments to Memorials / Donna Orange Orange, Donna 167

8 Tower of Skulls: A Totemic Memorial to the Cambodian Genocide / Evelyn Rappoport Rappoport, Evelyn 172

9 War and Peace / Eyal Rozmarin Rozmarin, Eyal 187

10 The Colonized Mind: Gender, Trauma and Mentalization / Sandra Silverman Silverman, Sandra 204

11 My Attachment Disorder with Truth / David M. Goodman Goodman, David M. 227.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138205819

1138205818

9781138205826

1138205826

OCLC:

957413702