The ethics of remembering and the consequences of forgetting : essays on trauma, history, and memory / edited by Michael O'Loughlin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

O'Loughlin, Michael, editor.

Series:

New Imago

New imago : series in theoretical, clinical, and applied psychoanalysis

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychic trauma.

Collective memory.

Recollection (Psychology).

History--Psychological aspects.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (407 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Ethics of Remembering and the Consequences of Forgetting brings together scholars from a variety of disciplines to address intersections of trauma, history, and memory. Methodologies include personal narrative, auto-ethnography, micro-history, psycho-social studies, critical theory, psychoanalysis, film/art criticism, and historical inquiry.

Contents:

Cover-Page

Half-Title

Series

Title

Copyright

Contents

List of Figures

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Ethics of Remembering and the Consequences of Forgetting

PART I: ETHICS OF MEMORY

1 Is Autonomy Unethical? Trauma and the Politics of Responsibility

2 Troubling Naturalized Trauma, Essentialized Therapy, and the Asphyxiation of Dangerous Memory

PART II: BIOGRAPHICAL REMNANTS

3 Wit(h)nessing the Other's Trauma: An Exploration of Barbara Loftus's Painting through the Work of Bracha Ettinger

4 In Search of Forgotten Memories after Thirty-Three Years: A Journey Home

5 The Sense of Loss and the Search for Meaning

6 Anglo-German Displacement and Diaspora in the Early Twentieth Century: An Intergenerational Haunting

7 Ghosts in the Mirror: A Granddaughter of Holocaust Survivors Reflects the Faces of History

8 Questions Unasked: The Legacy of Childhood Trauma in the Life Narratives of a Lithuanian Woman Survivor of the 1941 Soviet Deportations

9 They Left It All Behind: Psychological Experiences of Jewish Immigration and the Ambiguity of Loss

PART III: HISTORICAL REMNANTS

10 The Silence of the Grandchildren of the Civil War: Transgenerational Trauma in Spain

11 A South African Story of Disavowal: Toward a Genealogy of Post-apartheid Empathy

12 Specters of Genocide: Mass Graves, Horror Film, and Impunity in Post-Dictatorship Spain

13 "Each of Us Bears His Own Hell": A Window into Venues of Trauma in Central Eastern Europe

14 Battling with History: Collective Memory in the War Narratives of Israeli Soldiers

15 Trauma, Community, and Contemporary Racial Violence: Reflections on the Architecture of Memory

16 Managing Collapse: Commemorating September 11 through the Relational Design of a Memorial Museum

Afterword

Index

About the Editors and Contributors.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4422-3188-2

OCLC:

899240401