The Reproduction of Evil: A Clinical and Cultural PerspectiveRoutledge, 17.06.2013 - 216 Seiten Why is it that victims of abuse so often become perpetrators, and what can psychoanalysis offer to these survivor-perpetrators, whose criminal conduct seems to transcend the possibilities of empathic psychoanalytic inquiry. In The Reproduction of Evil, Sue Grand engages these deeply troublesome issues in the belief that psychoanalysts can and should reclaim the study of what lies beyond ordinary human empathy. Her goal is to elucidate the link between traumatic memory and the perpetration of evil. To this end, she presents an interdisciplinary analysis, at once scholarly and passionate, of the ways in which families and cultures transform victims of malignant trauma into perpetrators of these very traumas on others. Through intensive case studies, Grand draws the reader into the world of the survivor-perpetrators who commit acts of child abuse, of incest, of racial persecution, even of homicide and genocide. By infusing psychoanalytic inquiry with cultural analysis and by supplementing clinical vignettes with well-chosen literary illustrations, Grand is able to convey the survivor-perpetrator's immediacy of experience in a manner that readers may find unsettling, even uncanny. By interweaving psychoanalytic, sociohistorical, and literary perspectives, Grand fills a critical lacuna in the literature about trauma and its intergenerational transmission. Her analysis of the psychodynamic processes and cultural tensions that bind perpetrators, victims, and bystanders provides trenchant insights into the violence and fragmentation that beset our society. Essential reading for a wide clinical audience, The Reproduction of Evil will also be powerfully informative for academic and lay readers interested in the intrapsychic, interpersonal, and cultural factors that account for the perpetuation of evil from generation to generation. |
Inhalt
Loneliness and the Allure of Bodily Cruelty | |
Child Abuse and the Problem of Knowing History | |
The Paradox of Innocence Dissociative States in Perpetrators of Bodily Violation | |
Malignance and the Bestiality of Survival | |
The Depravities of the Nonhuman Self Greed Murder Persecution | |
Frankenstein and His Monster Grief and the Escape from Grief | |
The Problem of Redemption From Homicide to Psychic Annihilation | |
References | |
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The Reproduction of Evil: A Clinical and Cultural Perspective Sue Grand Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2013 |
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