The Sándor Ferenczi Center

The Sándor Ferenczi Center

NEW EVENT DATE: EXPLORING TRANS-GENERATIONAL TRANSMISSION OF TRAUMA.

We are excited to announce that we have rescheduled the book launch of WOUNDS OF HISTORY & TRANS-GENERATIONAL TRAUMA AND THE OTHER — two volumes that explore the transmission of trauma, its on-going impact, its effects on the ‘other,’ its repair and our resilience.  

EDITED BY: Jill Salberg and Sue Grand

This event was rescheduled due to a snow storm. The new date is
Thursday, May 4, 2017, 7:30 PM – 10:30 PM

Wollman Hall, B 500

Eugene Lang College, The New School

65 West 11th St. New York, NY 10003

Presentations and active discussion with light food and beverages

Register here for the new event date. 
Wounds of History takes a new view in psychoanalysis using a trans-generational and social/political/cultural model looking at trauma and its transmission. The view is radical in looking beyond maternal dyads and Oedipal triangles and in its portrayal of a multi-generational world that is no longer hierarchical. This look allows for greater clinical creativity for conceptualizing and treating human suffering, situating healing in expanding circles of witnessing.  The contributors to this volume look at inherited personal trauma involving legacies of war, genocide, slavery, political persecution, forced migration/unwelcomed immigration and the way attachment and connection is disrupted, traumatized and ultimately longing for repair and reconnection.
Often, our trans-generational legacies are stories of ‘us’ and ‘them’ that never reach their terminus. We carry fixed narratives, and the ghosts of our perpetrators and of our victims. We long to be subjects in our own history, but keep reconstituting the Other as an object in their own history. Trans-generational Trauma and the Other argues that healing requires us to engage with the Other who carries a corresponding pre-history. Without this dialogue, alienated ghosts can become persecutory objects, in psyche, politics, and culture.  This volume examines the violent loyalties of the past, the barriers to dialogue with our Other, and complicates the inter-subjectivity of Big History. Identifying our inherited narratives and relinquishing splitting, these authors ask how we can re-cast our Other, and move beyond dysfunctional repetitions – in our individual lives and in society.

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