The Ethics of Remembering and the Consequences of Forgetting: Essays on Trauma, History, and Memory (New Imago)

ISBN 10: 1442231874 / ISBN 13: 9781442231870

Published by Rowman & Littlefield, 2014

About this Item

In.

Seller Inventory # ria9781442231870_new

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Ethics of Remembering and the Consequences of Forgetting: Essays on Trauma, History, and Memory (New Imago)
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1442231874
• ISBN 13: 9781442231870
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Hannah Hahn maintains a full-time private practice as a psychologist and psychoanalyst in New York City. After graduate-level work in English literature, she obtained a master’s degree in psychology from Harvard University, a PhD in clinical psychology from Columbia University, and psychoanalytic certification from the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy, where she currently supervises candidates. She taught attachment at the New York Institute for Psychoanalytic Training in Infancy, Childhood, and Adolescence. Her publications and presentations include “They Left it All Behind,” in M. O’Loughlin’s The Ethics of Remembering and the Consequences of Forgetting (2015) and “A Safe Place to Stand: The Holding Environment with Child Patients and Their Parents” (2005).