Psychoanalysis History and Radical Ethics
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9780367339302
Subjects: History; Psychoanalysis, moral and ethical aspects; Psychoanalysis and philosophy; Silence; Collective memory
Description: "Psychoanalysis, History, and Radical Ethics: Learning to Hear explores the importance of listening, being able to speak, and those who are silenced, from a psychoanalytic perspective. In particular, it focuses on those voices silenced either collectively or individually by trauma, culture, discrimination and persecution, and even by the history of psychoanalysis. Drawing on lessons from philosophy and history as well as clinical vignettes, this book provides a comprehensive guide to understanding the role of trauma in creating silence, and the importance for psychoanalysts of learning to hear those silenced voices"--