C. Fred Alford

Trauma and Forgiveness

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Using case studies and theory, Alford argues that the traumatized are generally capable of representing their experience.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9781107626607
• ISBN-10: 1107626609
• Artikelnr.: 44033048

Autorenporträt

C. Fred Alford is Professor Emeritus at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he taught ancient and medieval political philosophy for thirty-eight years. He has written eighteen books on diverse subjects: psychoanalysis and politics, natural law, trauma theory, and the legacy of the Holocaust. While not a professional theologian, Alford wrote a book on Emmanuel Levinas (Talmudic scholar and postmodern philosopher), one on natural law, and still another addressing the book of Job.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: trauma and forgiveness
2. Is the Holocaust traumatic?
3. Winnicott and trauma
4. Melanie Klein and forgiveness: theory
5. Melanie Klein and forgiveness: practice
6. Winnicott: forgiveness and transitional experience
7. Jean Améry: resentment, loneliness, and aging
8. Conclusion: trauma as knowledge.