Lost in Transmission - Studies of Trauma Across Generations (Paperback)

A central thesis of this volume is that what human beings cannot contain of their experience what has been traumatically overwhelming, unbearable, unthinkable falls out of social discourse, but very often onto and into the next generation, as an affective sensitivity or a chaotic urgency. What appears to be a person's symptom may turn out to be a symbol in the context of this book, a symbol of an unconscious mission to repair a parent or avenge a humiliation assigned by the preceding generation. These tasks may be more or less idiosyncratic to a given family, suffering its own personal trauma, or collective in response to societal trauma.This book addresses this heritage of trauma and does so both from clinical and societal perspectives. It considers first the legacy of the Holocaust, the study of which broke ground for the new field of transmission studies; then the analysis and enactments of trauma in more ordinary clinical practice; and finally more recent, large-scale traumatic events within American society. Throughout, the links between the "little histories" of people and families and the "big history" of a society are illuminated."

General

Imprint:	Karnac Books
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	December 2012
First published:	November 2011
Authors:	M. Gerard Fromm
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	252
ISBN-13:	978-1-85575-864-3
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Philosophy & theory of psychology > Psychoanalysis & psychoanalytical theory Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > Accident & emergency medicine > Trauma & shock
LSN:	1-85575-864-4
Barcode:	9781855758643

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