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List of contents
Introduction , War games—mourning loss through play , Public memory and figures of fragmentation , To mend the world—trauma, mourning, and containment , Holocaust survivor mothers and their daughters—the intergenerational mourning process as a journey in search of the mother , Unable to mourn again? Media(ted) reactions to German neo-Nazi terrorism , Politicising trauma—a post-colonial and psychoanalytic conceptual intervention , Ongoing mourning as a way to go beyond endless grief—considerations on the Lebanese experience , When the “comfort women” speak—shareability and recognition of traumatic memory , A relational approach to trauma, memory, mourning, and recognition through Death and the Maiden by Ariel Dorfman , Victory and defeat—from Beveridge to Thatcher without tears
About the author
Lene Auestad, PhD, is Research Fellow in Philosophy at the University of Oslo, and affiliated with the Centre for Studies of the Holocaust and Religious Minorities, Oslo. She moved to the UK to pursue long-standing interests in British psychoanalysis. Working at the interface of psychoanalytic thinking and ethics/political theory, her writing has focused on the themes of emotions, prejudice and minority rights. She is the author of 'Respect, Plurality, and Prejudice: A Psychoanalytical and Philosophical Enquiry into the Dynamics of Social Exclusion and Discrimination', and 'Psychoanalysis and Politics: Exclusion and the Politics of Representation', as well as a number of articles, including 'To Think or Not To Think', in the 'Journal of Social and Psychological Sciences', and 'Splitting, Attachment and Instrumental Rationality', in 'Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society'.
Summary
This book questions the junctions of the private and the public when it comes to trauma, loss, and the work of mourning - notions which, it is argued, challenge our very ideas of the individual and the shared. It asks, to paraphrase Adorno, 'What do we mean by "working through the past"?,
