Transcending the Legacies of Slavery - A Psychoanalytic View

Informationen zum Autor Barbara Fletchman Smith Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Product details

• Authors: Barbara Fletchman Smith, Barbara Fletchman Smith, Smith Barbara Fletchman
• Publisher: Stylus Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2011
• EAN: 9781855758964
• ISBN: 978-1-85575-896-4
• No. of pages: 110
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Psychoanalysis; Psychoanalysis, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Slavery & abolition of slavery, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis, Slavery, enslaved persons and abolition of slavery