Transcending the Legacies of Slavery: A Psychoanalytic View [Hardcover]

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 separaIntroduction, 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 Isolated 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.

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.

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