Those Who Come after : Postmemory, Acknowledgement and Forgiveness (Studies in the Psychosocial)

Frosh, Stephen

Springer Nature Switzerland AG（2019/04発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 246 p.
• 商品コード 9783030148522

Full Description

This book explores the legacies of suffering in relation to 'those who come after' - the descendants of victims, survivors and perpetrators of traumatic events. It draws on recent discussions of 'postmemory' and 'haunting' that are concerned mainly with the transgenerational impact of personal and social trauma. It examines how we are connected to past events for which we have no direct responsibility yet in which we might in some way be 'implicated' and it asks how we might attain a position of active witnessing that helps resolve the suffering of others. Those Who Come After includes vivid accounts of witnessing from a variety of perspectives, ranging from Biblical and Jewish stories to contemporary art and music. The book draws on psychosocial studies and psychoanalysis to help make sense of this material and to develop an understanding of acknowledgment and responsibility that is both ethical and emancipatory. Those Who Come After will be of great interest to readers in psychosocial studies and psychoanalysis and to all who are concerned with the question of how to put past suffering to rest.

Contents

Introduction.- Chapter 1: Postmemory.- Chapter 2: Traces and Remains: A Jewish Ghost Story?.- Chapter 3: Beyond Recognition: The Politics of Encounter.- Chapter 4: Acknowledgement and Responsibility.- Chapter 5: Atonement.- Chapter 6: Being There.- Chapter 7: Different Trains: An Essay in Memorialising.- Chapter 8: What We are Left With.