Remembering as Reparation: Psychoanalysis and Historical Memory (Studies in the Psychosocial) - Softcover

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Figlio, Karl

 
9781349955497: Remembering as Reparation: Psychoanalysis and Historical Memory (Studies in the Psychosocial)
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ISBN 10: 1349955493 ISBN 13: 9781349955497
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

Synopsis

This book brings together psychoanalysis, clinical and theoretical, with history in a study of remembering as reparation: not compensation, but recognition of the actuality of perpetration and the remorseful urge to rejuvenate whatever represents this damage. Karl Figlio argues that this process, intensively studied by Melanie Klein, is shadowed by manic reparation, which simulates, but is antithetical, to it. Both aim for peace of mind: the former in a guilt-induced attitude of making better a damaged ‘good object’, internal and external; the latter, supported by defences thoroughly studied in psychoanalysis, in claiming liberation from an accusatory object. 

This psychoanalytic line of thinking converges with historical scholarship on post-war German memory and memorialization. Remembering is posited as ambivalent - it is reparative, in ‘remembering true’, with respect and self-respect. It is also manic reparative, in ‘remembering false’, shedding bondsto the actuality of history through acts of triumph and liberation. 

This thoughtful book highlights new features of history and memory work, especially the importance of emotion, and will be of great value to students, academics and practitioners across the fields of psychoanalysis, memory studies, German studies and modern history. 


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About the Author

Karl Figlio is Professor Emeritus in the Department for Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex, UK. He is a Senior Member of the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Association of the British Psychoanalytic Council and an Associate of the British Psychoanalytical Society. He has published widely in the history of science, psychoanalysis and psychoanalysis and culture.

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date
2018
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1349955493
ISBN 13 
9781349955497
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
297

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