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Trauma and forgiveness : consequences and communities / C. Fred Alford, University of Maryland.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (vii, 220 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781107724044
  • 110772404X
  • 9781107732162
  • 1107732166
  • 9781107338326
  • 1107338328
  • 1107721032
  • 9781107721036
  • 1139894919
  • 9781139894913
  • 1107728053
  • 9781107728059
  • 1107730414
  • 9781107730410
  • 1107728657
  • 9781107728653
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Trauma and Forgiveness : Consequences and Communities.DDC classification:
  • 155.9/3 23
LOC classification:
  • BF175.5.P75 A44 2013eb
NLM classification:
  • 2014 E-447
  • WM 172.5
Other classification:
  • PSY007000
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction : trauma and forgiveness -- Is the Holocaust traumatic -- Winnicott and trauma -- Melanie Klein and forgiveness : theory -- Melanie Klein and forgiveness : practice -- Winnicott : forgiveness and transitional experience -- Jean Améry : resentment, loneliness, and aging -- Conclusion : trauma as knowledge.
Summary: "Contrary to the view of trauma popularized by literary theorists, Trauma and Forgiveness argues that the traumatized are capable of representing their experience and that we should therefore listen more and theorize less. Using stories and case studies, including testimonies from Holocaust survivors, as well as the victims of 'ordinary' trauma, C. Fred Alford shows that while the traumatized are generally capable of representing their experience, this does little to heal them. He draws on the British Object Relations tradition in psychoanalysis to argue that forgiveness, which might be expected to help heal the traumatized, is generally an attempt to avoid the hard work of mourning losses which can never be made whole. Forgiveness is better seen as a virtue in the classical sense, a recognition of human vulnerability. The book concludes with an extended case study of Austrian essayist Jean Ame;ry and his refusal to forgive"-- Provided by publisher.
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Print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : trauma and forgiveness -- Is the Holocaust traumatic -- Winnicott and trauma -- Melanie Klein and forgiveness : theory -- Melanie Klein and forgiveness : practice -- Winnicott : forgiveness and transitional experience -- Jean Améry : resentment, loneliness, and aging -- Conclusion : trauma as knowledge.

"Contrary to the view of trauma popularized by literary theorists, Trauma and Forgiveness argues that the traumatized are capable of representing their experience and that we should therefore listen more and theorize less. Using stories and case studies, including testimonies from Holocaust survivors, as well as the victims of 'ordinary' trauma, C. Fred Alford shows that while the traumatized are generally capable of representing their experience, this does little to heal them. He draws on the British Object Relations tradition in psychoanalysis to argue that forgiveness, which might be expected to help heal the traumatized, is generally an attempt to avoid the hard work of mourning losses which can never be made whole. Forgiveness is better seen as a virtue in the classical sense, a recognition of human vulnerability. The book concludes with an extended case study of Austrian essayist Jean Ame;ry and his refusal to forgive"-- Provided by publisher.

English.

WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 050, 650

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