Research Catalog

Title

History beyond trauma : whereof one cannot speak, thereof one cannot stay silent / Françoise Davoine and Jean-Max Gaudillière ; translated by Susan Fairfield.

Author

Davoine, Françoise

Publication

New York : Other Press, 2004.

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Details

Additional Authors

Gaudillière, Jean-Max

Description

xxx, 282 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

"The authors present vivid examples of clinical work with severely traumatized patients, reaching inward to their own intimate family histories as shaped by the Second World War and outward toward an exceptionally broad range of cultural references to literature, philosophy, political theory, and anthropology. In order to show how the therapeutic approach to trauma was developed on the basis of war psychiatry, the authors ground their clinical theory in the work of Thomas Salmon, an American doctor from the time of the First World War. With their clear, direct presentation, and a special focus on the relationship between psychoanalysis and the neurosciences, Davoine and Gaudilliere show how the patient-analyst relationship opens pathways of investigation into the nature of madness."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Warfare
• Repression, Psychology
• Post-traumatic stress disorder
• Psychic trauma
• Psychoanalysis
• War > Psychological aspects
• Mental illness > Social aspects
• Intergenerational relations
• History
• Intergenerational Relations
• Transference, Psychology
• Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-272) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword / M. Gerard Fromm -- Lessons of Madness -- From the Collapse of a World to the Search for Insanity -- Folly Speaks -- Auguste: In the Beginning Was Shame -- The Twofold Tradition of Folly: Speaking of, Speaking to -- When Folly Is Speaking to No One, to Whom Is It Speaking? A Social Link in the Making -- Adam, Holzminden: The Return of the Real -- Gilda: Madness Speaks to the "Leftovers" of the Analyst's History -- The Analyst Speaks -- The Analyst's Situation -- After Some Others -- The Analyst as "Annalist" of Inaudible Histories -- Exiting Madness: A Demand for Truth -- Gilda: On the Threshold of Time -- The Army of the Dead -- Auguste Comte: An Excess of Subjectivity to Confront a "Superpositivity" -- From the Principle of Objectivation to the Birth of a Subject -- From the Lesion in the Brain to the Lesion in the Other -- Neurology and Psychoanalysis: A Contemporary Issue -- Objectivation/Positivity: A New Paradigm for Psychoanalysis -- The "Superpositivity" of Madness -- The Subject at Stake -- The Logic of Catastrophic Zones: Lesions in Otherness -- The "Children" of Phineas Gage -- "A Death in the Family": The Neurologist Comes to the Aid of the Psychoanalyst -- War and Peace in Psychoanalysis -- A Problematic Causality -- Transference in Neurologists -- The Horrified Other -- On the Borders of Language: The Analyst's Dissociated Impressions -- Henry: Casus Belli in Analysis -- Genesis of the Symbolon against the Background of War -- Showing What Cannot Be Said -- The Festival of the Mad Rises from the Ashes.

ISBN

1590511115

LCCN

^^2003022677

OCLC

• 53325399
• SCSB-11961105

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library