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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457903503321

Autore

Smith Barbara Fletchman

Titolo

Transcending the legacies of slavery : a psychoanalytic view / / Barbara Fletchman Smith

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Karnac Books, , 2011

ISBN

0-429-90896-2

0-429-48419-4

1-283-37021-2

9786613370211

1-84940-907-2

1-78049-847-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (138 p.)

Disciplina

616.8917008625

Soggetti

Cultural psychiatry

Psychoanalysis and culture - Caribbean Area

Psychoanalysis

Slavery - Psychological aspects

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 113-115) and index.

Nota di contenuto

COVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; 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 I SOLATED 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; REFERENCES; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

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 paternity. This was achieved through the particular cruelties of separating couples at the first sign of loving interest in each other; and separating infants from their mothers. Cruelty disturbed the natura