Transcending the legacies of slavery : a psychoanalytic view / Barbara Fletchman Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, Barbara Fletchman, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cultural psychiatry.

Psychoanalysis and culture--Caribbean Area--Case studies.

Psychoanalysis and culture.

Psychoanalysis--Cross-cultural studies.

Psychoanalysis.

Slavery--Psychological aspects.

Slavery.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (138 p.)

Edition:

1st.

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 2018.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book puts psychological trauma at its centre. Using psychoanalysis, it assesses what was lost, how it was lost and how the loss is compulsively repeated over generations. There is a conceptualization of this trauma as circular. Such a situation makes it stubbornly persistent. It is suggested that central to the system of slavery was the separating out of procreation from maternity and paternity. This was achieved through the particular cruelties of separating couples at the first sign of loving interest in each other; and separating infants from their mothers. Cruelty disturbed the natura

Contents:

COVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 1 A CIRCULAR SITUATION OF PERSISTENT TRAUMA; CHAPTER 2 SLAVERY AND PSYCHOLOGICAL TRAUMA; CHAPTER 3 WOMEN, SLAVERY, AND LOVING RELATIONSHIPS; CHAPTER 4 SLAVERY, THE STORY OF OEDIPUS, AND THE OEDIPUS COMPLEX; CHAPTER 5 A SEPARATION MADE TOO EARLY; CHAPTER 6 THE SENT-AWAY CHILD AND THE I SOLATED ADULT; CHAPTER 7 ON THE EMERGENCE OF VIOLENCE IN YOUNG PEOPLE; CHAPTER 8 SOME THOUGHTS ON GRAND-PARENTING; CHAPTER 9 TRANSCENDING THE LEGACIES OF SLAVERY; REFERENCES; INDEX

Notes:

<P>Introduction, Chapter 1 A Circular Situation of Persistent Trauma, Chapter 2 Slavery and Psychological Trauma, Chapter 3 Women, Slavery, and Loving Relationships, Chapter 4 Slavery, the Story of Oedipus, and the Oedipus Complex, Chapter 5 A Separation Made Too Early, Chapter 6 The Sent-Away Child and the Isolated Adult, Chapter 7 On the Emergence of Violence in Young People, Chapter 8 Some Thoughts on Grand-Parenting, Chapter 9 Transcending the Legacies of Slavery.</P>

Includes bibliographical references (p. 113-115) and index.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

0-429-90896-2

0-429-48419-4

1-283-37021-2

9786613370211

1-84940-907-2

1-78049-847-0

9780429484193

OCLC:

763156644