ABSTRACT

Psychoanalysis, History, and Radical Ethics: Learning to Hear explores the importance of listening, being able to speak, and those who are silenced, from a psychoanalytic perspective. In particular, it focuses on those voices silenced either collectively or individually by trauma, culture, discrimination and persecution, and even by the history of psychoanalysis. Drawing on lessons from philosophy and history as well as clinical vignettes, this book provides a comprehensive guide to understanding the role of trauma in creating silence, and the importance for psychoanalysts of learning to hear those silenced voices.

chapter |7 pages

Introduction

Learning to hear

chapter Chapter 1|19 pages

Silence in phenomenology

Dream or nightmare?

chapter Chapter 2|15 pages

Violence, dissociation, and traumatizing silence

chapter Chapter 3|21 pages

This is not psychoanalysis!

chapter Chapter 5|29 pages

Reading history as an ethical and therapeutic project

chapter Chapter 6|27 pages

Radical ethics

Beyond moderation

chapter Chapter 7|32 pages

Ethical hearing

Demand and enigma

chapter |2 pages

Afterword