Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Editors' Introduction -- Part I When Our Histories Collide -- Introduction Haunted Dialogues: When Histories Collide -- 1 Representing, Theorizing and Reconfiguring…
Often, our trans-generational legacies are stories of 'us' and 'them' that never reach their terminus. We carry fixed narratives, and the ghosts of our perpetrators and of our victims. We long to be subjects in our own history, but keep reconstituting the Other as an object in t…
Wounds of History takes a new view in psychoanalysis using a trans-generational and social/political/cultural model looking at trauma and its transmission. The view is radical in looking beyond maternal dyads and Oedipal triangles and in its portrayal of a multi-generational wor…
Pt. I. Massive trauma : attachment ruptured, attachment repaired -- pt. II. Repetitions of violence, antidotes to war -- pt. III. Persecution and otherness : different subjectivities and the restoration of trust -- pt. IV. Fragmented legacies, healing narratives.