Transgenerational Haunting in Psychoanalysis
Transgenerational Haunting in Psychoanalysis

Author: Maurice Apprey

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-10-31

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 100099046X

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In this book, Maurice Apprey continues his unique work on transgenerational haunting to explore how events in our ancestors' lives may be renegotiated and re-subjectivized in the present from within the therapeutic dyad. With an informed and impassioned voice that evokes the tragic psychic consequences of the unresolved, silenced tragedies and transgressions that haunt subsequent generations, Apprey illustrates how the analyst can unfold a patient's transference wishes and emancipate them from the unconscious projects, or errands, they have inherited. This can happen through a threefold process of excavating the unconscious sedimentations of ancestral history, appropriating and reactivating the ancestral errands within the transference, and subsequently decoding the patient's transference pressures. Expanding on Apprey's work about the analyst's field of inquiry and ways of listening in clinical practice, this book illuminates the potential for a resolution, rather than a re-enactment, of the traumas that can haunt a family system across generations. Attending to the manifestation of transgenerational trauma through varied clinical material, and informed by the thinking of Sigmund Freud, among others, this book will be essential reading for all psychoanalysts and psychotherapists.

Trans-generational Trauma and the Other
Trans-generational Trauma and the Other

Author: Sue Grand

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-12-19

Total Pages: 355

ISBN-13: 1315466279

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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.

Gothic Hauntings
Gothic Hauntings

Author: Christine Berthin

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2010-04-09

Total Pages: 199

ISBN-13: 0230275125

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What is buried in the crypts of the Gothic? Building on psychoanalytic research on haunting, cryptonymy and melancholy, as well as on French philosophies of language, this book explores how haunting is not just a Gothic narrative device but the symptom of an impossibility of representation and of an irreparable loss at the heart of language.

Haunting Legacies
Haunting Legacies

Author: Gabriele Schwab

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2010-10-19

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 0231526350

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From mass murder to genocide, slavery to colonial suppression, acts of atrocity have lives that extend far beyond the horrific moment. They engender trauma that echoes for generations, in the experiences of those on both sides of the act. Gabriele Schwab reads these legacies in a number of narratives, primarily through the writing of postwar Germans and the descendents of Holocaust survivors. She connects their work to earlier histories of slavery and colonialism and to more recent events, such as South African Apartheid, the practice of torture after 9/11, and the "disappearances" that occurred during South American dictatorships. Schwab's texts include memoirs, such as Ruth Kluger's Still Alive and Marguerite Duras's La Douleur; second-generation accounts by the children of Holocaust survivors, such as Georges Perec's W, Art Spiegelman's Maus, and Philippe Grimbert's Secret; and second-generation recollections by Germans, such as W. G. Sebald's Austerlitz, Sabine Reichel's What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?, and Ursula Duba's Tales from a Child of the Enemy. She also incorporates her own reminiscences of growing up in postwar Germany, mapping interlaced memories and histories as they interact in psychic life and cultural memory. Schwab concludes with a bracing look at issues of responsibility, reparation, and forgiveness across the victim/perpetrator divide.

Hauntings: Psychoanalysis and Ghostly Transmissions
Hauntings: Psychoanalysis and Ghostly Transmissions

Author: Stephen Frosh

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2013-01-11

Total Pages: 190

ISBN-13: 1137031255

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This book explores how the present is troubled by the past and the future. It uses the idea of haunting to explore how identities, beliefs, intimacies and hatreds are transmitted across generations and between people and how these things structure psychosocial and psychopolitical life.

The Shell and the Kernel
The Shell and the Kernel

Author: Nicolas Abraham

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1994-09

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 9780226000879

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This volume is a superb introduction to the richness and originality of Abraham and Torok's approach to psychoanalysis and their psychoanalytic approach to literature. Abraham and Torok advocate a form of psychoanalysis that insists on the particularity of any individual's life story, the specificity of texts, and the singularity of historical situations. In what is both a critique and an extension of Freud, they develop interpretive strategies with powerful implications for clinicians, literary theorists, feminists, philosophers, and all others interested in the uses and limits of psychoanalysis. Central to their approach is a general theory of psychic concealment, a poetics of hiding. Whether in a clinical setting or a literary text, they search out the unspeakable secret as a symptom of devastating trauma revealed only in linguistic or behavioral encodings. Their view of trauma provides the linchpin for new psychic and linguistic structures such as the "transgenerational phantom," an undisclosed family secret handed down to an unwitting descendant, and the intra-psychic secret or "crypt," which entombs an unspeakable but consummated desire. Throughout, Abraham and Torok seek to restore communication with those intimate recesses of the mind which are, for one reason or another, denied expression. Classics of French theory and practice, the essays in volume one include four previously uncollected works by Maria Torok. Nicholas Rand supplies a substantial introductory essay and commentary throughout. Abraham and Torok's theories of fractured meaning and their search for coherence in the face of discontinuity and disruption have the potential to reshape not only psychoanalysis but all disciplines concerned with issues of textual, oral, or visual interpretation.

Toward a Social Psychoanalysis
Toward a Social Psychoanalysis

Author: Lynne Layton

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-02-26

Total Pages: 293

ISBN-13: 1000037436

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Frantz Fanon, Erich Fromm, Pierre Bourdieu, and Marie Langer are among those activists, clinicians, and academics who have called for a social psychoanalysis. For over thirty years, Lynne Layton has heeded this call and produced a body of work that examines unconscious process as it operates both in the social world and in the clinic. In this volume of Layton’s most important papers, she expands on earlier theorists’ ideas of social character by exploring how dominant ideologies and culturally mandated, hierarchical identity prescriptions are lived in individual and relational conflict. Through clinical and cultural examples, Layton describes how enactments of what she calls ‘normative unconscious processes’ reinforce cultural inequalities of race, sex, gender, and class both inside and outside the clinic, and at individual, interpersonal, and institutional levels. Clinicians, academics, and activists alike will find here a deeper understanding of the power of unconscious process, and are called on to envision and enact a progressive future in which vulnerability and interdependency are honored and systemic inequalities dismantled.

The Burden of Heritage: Hauntings of Intergenerational Trauma on Black Lives
The Burden of Heritage: Hauntings of Intergenerational Trauma on Black Lives

Author: Aileen Alleyne

Publisher: Confer Books

Published: 2022-08-30

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 9781913494247

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This book is a crucial and timely addition to the ever-present subject of Inter- and Transgenerational Trauma. It charts the modes of transmission of black ancestral trauma passed down the generations and highlights the psychological impacts on black people's sense of identity and selfhood. It also explores the unheeded dimensions of both individual and collective identity trauma, and pays particular attention to black identity wounding, shame, and cultural enmeshment issues. In this book, the author represents the idea of "the Internal Oppressor" that inhibits self-belief and potential. Alleyne suggests that this formidable enemy within is the first port of call in breaking the cycle of generational trauma. It is an insightful and educational resource for understanding historical trauma transmissions, replete with tools and theoretical handles for managing present day problems that inhibit back black people's individuation and actualising processes.

The Wolf Man's Magic Word
The Wolf Man's Magic Word

Author: Nicolas Abraham

Publisher: U of Minnesota Press

Published: 2005-10-01

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 0816648581

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An innovative literary analysis of Freud's "Wolf Man."

Wounds of History
Wounds of History

Author: Jill Salberg

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-12-08

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 131761402X

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Wounds of History takes a new view in psychoanalysis using a trans-generational and social/political/cultural model looking at trauma and its transmission. The view is radical in looking beyond maternal dyads and Oedipal triangles and in its portrayal of a multi-generational world that is no longer hierarchical. This look allows for greater clinical creativity for conceptualizing and treating human suffering, situating healing in expanding circles of witnessing. The contributors to this volume look at inherited personal trauma involving legacies of war, genocide, slavery, political persecution, forced migration/unwelcomed immigration and the way attachment and connection is disrupted, traumatized and ultimately longing for repair and reconnection. The book addresses several themes such as the ethical/social turn in psychoanalysis; the repetition of resilience and wounds and the repair of these wounds; the complexity of attachment in the aftermath of trauma, and the move towards social justice. In their contributions, the authors remain close to the human stories. Wounds of History will be of interest to psychoanalysts, psychologists and other mental health professionals, as well as students or teachers of trauma studies, Jewish and gender studies and studies of genocide.