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.
Introduction: Learning to Hear
Chapter 1: Silence in Phenomenology: Dream or Nightmare?
Chapter 2: Violence, Dissociation, and Traumatizing Silence
Chapter 3: This is not Psychoanalysis!
Chapter 4: The Seduction of Mystical Monisms in the Humanistic Psychotherapies
Chapter 5: Reading History as an Ethical and Therapeutic Project
Chapter 6: Radical Ethics: Beyond Moderation
Chapter 7: Ethical Hearing: Demand and Enigma
Afterword
Appendix: Open acknowledgement and apology by the International Association for Analytical Psychology (IAAP) concerning C.G. Jungs attitudes to and writings on persons of African heritage.
Psychoanalysis, History, and Radical Ethics explores the importance of listening, being able to speak, and those who are silenced, from a psychoanalytic perspective. It focuses on voices silenced either collectively or individually by trauma, culture, discrimination, persecution, and even by the history of psychoanalysis.
Donna M. Orange, Ph.D., Psy.D., is a psychoanalyst and philosopher living in California. She teaches at the NYU PolÓ