Transcending the legacies of slavery: a psychoanalytic view
Auteur :
Smith, Barbara Fletchman
Éditeur :
Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN :
9781855758964
Date de publication :
31 déc. 2011
Dimensions :
23,0 x 14,7 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
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.