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The Ethics of Remembering and the Consequences of Forgetting: Essays on Trauma, History, and Memory brings together scholars from a variety of disciplines that draw on multiple perspectives to address issues that arise at the intersection of trauma, history, and memory. Contributors include critical theorists, critical historians, psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, and a working artist. The authors use intergenerational trauma theory while also pushing and pulling at the edges of conventional understandings of how trauma is defined. This book respects the importance of the recuperation of memory and the creation of interstitial spaces where trauma might be voiced. The writers are consistent in showing a deep respect for the sociohistorical context of subjective formation and the political importance of recuperating dangerous memory-the kind of memory that some authorities go to great lengths to erase. The Ethics of Remembering and the Consequences of Forgetting is of interest to critical historians, critical social theorists, psychotherapists, psychosocial theorists, and to those exploring the possibilities of life as the practice of freedom.
List of contents
List of Illustrations
Foreword, Claude Barbre
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Ethics of Remembering and the Consequences of Forgetting: Introductory Essay
Michael O'Loughlin
Part I Ethics of Memory
Chapter 1: Is Autonomy Unethical?: Trauma and the Politics of Responsibility
Mari Ruti
Chapter 2: Troubling Naturalized Trauma, Essentialized Therapy, and the Asphyxiation of Dangerous Memory
Michael O'Loughlin
Part II Biographical Remnants
Chapter 3: Wit(h)nessing the Other's Trauma: An Exploration of Barbara Loftus's Painting Through the Work of Bracha Ettinger
Angie Voela
Chapter 4: In Search of Forgotten Memories after Thirty-three Years: A Journey Home
Minh Truong-George
Chapter 5: The Sense of Loss and the Search for Meaning
Norma Tracey & Graham Toomey
Chapter 6: Anglo-German Displacement and Diaspora in the Early Twentieth Century: An Intergenerational Haunting
Nigel Williams
Chapter 7: Ghosts in the Mirror: A Granddaughter of Holocaust Survivors Reflects the Faces of History
Nirit Gradwohl Pisano
Chapter 8: Questions Unasked: The Legacy of Childhood Trauma in the Life Narratives of Lithuanian Women Survivors of the 1941 Soviet Deportations.
Justina Kaminskaite Dillon & Michael O'Loughlin
Chapter 9: They Left it All Behind: Psychological Experiences of Jewish Immigration and the Ambiguity of Loss
Hannah Hahn
Part III Historical Remnants
Chapter 10: The Silence of the Grandchildren of the Civil War: Transgenerational Trauma in Spain
Clara Valverde & Luis Martín-Cabrera
Chapter 11: A South African Story of Disavowal: Towards a Genealogy of Post-apartheid Empathy
Ross Truscott
Chapter 12: Spanish Horror as Te(x)timony of Mass Extermination and the Cultural Trauma of Enforced Disappearance
Scott Boehm
Chapter 13: "Each of Us Bears His Own Hell:" A Window into Venues of Trauma in Central
Eastern Europe
Reinhold Stipsits
Chapter 14: Transmission of Jewish/Israeli Collective Memory as Evident in the Narratives of Israeli Soldiers who participated in The 2006 Second Lebanon War.
Naama De La Fontaine & Kate Szymanski
Chapter 15: Trauma, Community, and Contemporary Racial Violence: Reflections on the Architecture of Memory
Ricardo Ainslie
Chapter 16: Managing Collapse: Commemorating September 11th through the Relational Design of a Memorial Museum
Billie Pivnick & Tom Hennes
Afterword, Marilyn Charles
About the author
Edited by Michael O'Loughlin - Foreword by Claude Barbre - Contributions by Ricardo Ainslie; Claude Barbre; Scott Boehm; Marilyn Charles; Naama de la Fontaine; Justina K. Dillon; Minh Truong-George; Hannah Hahn; Tom Hennes; Luis Martin-Cabrera; Michael O'
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, psychosocial studies, critical theory, psychoanalysis, film/art criticism, and historical inquiry.
