1st Edition
Transcending the Legacies of Slavery A Psychoanalytic View
By Barbara Fletchman Smith
Copyright 2011
138 Pages
by
Routledge
138 Pages
by
Routledge
144 Pages
by
Routledge
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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. It is suggested that central to the system of slavery was the separating out of procreation from maternity and... Read more
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.
Biography
Barbara Fletchman Smith
