Sue Grand

The Hero in the Mirror

From Fear to Fortitude

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Produktbeschreibung

Sue Grand offers a phenomenology of terror - through a look at war, genocide, terrorism, torture, and familial abuse - and queries the conditions through which an individual or group retains its humanity through acts of rescue, resistance and memorial activity.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. November 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 318g
• ISBN-13: 9780881634822
• ISBN-10: 0881634824
• Artikelnr.: 26879451

Autorenporträt

Sue Grand, Ph.D., is faculty and supervisor at the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, where she holds a specialization in trauma as well as family and couples. In addition, she is faculty at the Mitchell Center for Relational Psychoanalysis, the Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis, the National Institute for the Psychotherapies, and the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California. She is an associate editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues and author of The Reproduction of Evil (Analytic Press, 2000), and has a private practive in New York City and Teaneck, NJ.

Inhaltsangabe

The Hero in the Mirror. Section I: Heroes and Warriors. Combat Speaks I:
Heroic Performance, Civilian Desire. Combat Speaks II: Grief and Tragic
Memory. Section II: Childhood and the Heroic Imagination. Fantastic
Dangers: Reality Meets the Edge of the World. Strange Bodies in Strange
Encounters: Transfiguration and Inquiry. Section III: Analytic Heroes:
Finding Courage. False Courage, Analytic Lies. Intrepid Subjects: Rescuing
Lost Generations. Section IV: Resisting Demonic Heroes. Restoring Reverence
to Sacrificial Bodies: Terrorism, Counter-terrorism, Torture. Dignifying
the Abject: Genocide and State Terror. Epilogue.