Main description:

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.

Contents:

Introduction: Learning to Hear

Chapter 1: Silence in Phenomenology: Dream or Nightmare?

Chapter 2: Violence, Dissociation, and Traumatizing Silence

Chapter 3: This is not Psychoanalysis!

Chapter 4: The Seduction of Mystical Monisms in the Humanistic Psychotherapies

Chapter 5: Reading History as an Ethical and Therapeutic Project

Chapter 6: Radical Ethics: Beyond Moderation

Chapter 7: Ethical Hearing: Demand and Enigma

Afterword

Appendix: Open acknowledgement and apology by the International Association for Analytical Psychology (IAAP) concerning C.G. Jung's attitudes to and writings on persons of African heritage.