Traces of Violence and Freedom of Thought

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Traces of Violence and Freedom of Thought

   • Lene Auestad, Amal Treacher Kabesh

   Pages 1-16

3. Speech, Repetition , Renewal

   • Lene Auestad

   Pages 17-34

4. Logos, Ethos, Pathos or a Politics of Errors

   • Szymon Wróbel

   Pages 35-55

5. To Be or Bartleby— Psychoanalysis and the Crisis of Immunity

   • Werner Prall

   Pages 57-71

6. Instrumental Subjectivity: Père-Suasion as Père-Version

   • Jonathan Davidoff

   Pages 73-88

7. From Totalitarian to Democratic Functioning: The Psychic Economy of Infantile Processes

   • Kathleen Kelley-Lainé

   Pages 89-106

8. Rhetorics of Power—Can it Dress the Naked King, the Emperor Without Clothes?

   • Kinga Göncz

   Pages 107-121

9. Shame Disciplines in the Chinese Cultural Revolution: Lurid and Ludic

   • Edward Weisband

   Pages 123-148

10. Intergenerational Layers of Silence: How the Concealed or the Outspoken Remain Undiscussable or Indescribable

    • Julia Richter

    Pages 149-164

11. Recovered Identities: The Found Children of the Argentinian Disappeared

    • Lucia Corti

    Pages 165-183

12. Troubling States of Mind: Sacrificing the Other

    • Amal Treacher Kabesh

    Pages 185-198

13. Ferenc Mérei and the Politics of Psychoanalysis in Hungary

    • Ferenc Erős

    Pages 199-210

14. Histories of Violence : Outrage, Identification and Analytic Work

    • Julia Borossa

    Pages 211-227

15. Back Matter

    Pages 229-233

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This book examines how people cannot escape being tainted, whether actively engaged or not, by violence in its countless manifestations. The essays encompass a wide range of theoretical resources, methodological approaches and geo-political areas. They describe how images and fragments of traumatic and violent scenarios are transported from one generation’s unconscious to that of another, leading to cycles of repetition and retaliation, restricting the freedom to imagine alternatives and inhabit alternative positions. The authors all work within a psychosocial framework by unsettling the boundaries between psyche-social. Four themes are addressed: violence of speech, violence and domination, repetition and violence, and the possibility of reparation or renewal. Due to its theoretical engagements and the case studies provided, this interdisciplinary collection will be of value to postgraduate and undergraduate students of psychology, philosophy, politics and history.

• applied linguistics
• freedom
• liberty
• rhetoric
• Patho-Politics
• Instrumental Subjectivity
• Ferenc Merei
• Political Rhetoric
• Genocide

• London, United Kingdom

  Lene Auestad

• School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom

  Amal Treacher Kabesh

Lene Auestad writes and lectures internationally on ethics, critical theory and psychoanalysis and gained her PhD in Philosophy from the University of Oslo, Norway. She is author of several books including Respect, Plurality, and Prejudice: A Psychoanalytical and Philosophical Enquiry into the Dynamics of Social Exclusion and Discrimination. In 2010 she founded the international and interdisciplinary conference series Psychoanalysis and Politics, which continues to this day, and on which this book is based. 


Amal Treacher Kabesh is Associate Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences, at the University of Nottingham, UK. She has published extensively on matters of identity and draws on psychosocial studies and postcolonial theory to deepen her understandings. Her most recent research interests are related to the relationship between the Middle East and the West and has forthcoming monograph entitled: Egyptian Revolutions: Conflict, Repetition and Identification.

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