02169nam a22003618a 4500001001600000003000700016005001700023006001900040007001500059008004100074020002600115020002900141020003000170040002400200050002700224082001600251100003000267245010000297246002500397264005200422300005900474336002600533337002600559338003600585500007300621520093800694650001901632650001601651650001501667776003501682856007101717999001901788CR9781107338326UkCbUP20180107143416.0m|||||o||d||||||||cr||||||||||||130214s2013||||enk     s     ||1 0|eng|d  a9781107338326 (ebook)  z9781107043404 (hardback)  z9781107626607 (paperback)  aUkCbUPcUkCbUPerda00aBF175.5.P75 bA44 201300a155.9/32231 aAlford, C. Fred,eauthor.10aTrauma and Forgiveness :bConsequences and Communities / [electronic resource]cC. Fred Alford.3 aTrauma & Forgiveness 1aCambridge :bCambridge University Press,c2013.  a1 online resource (230 pages) :bdigital, PDF file(s).  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015).  aContrary to the view of trauma popularized by literary theorists, Trauma and Forgiveness argues that the traumatized are capable of representing their experience and that we should therefore listen more and theorize less. Using stories and case studies, including testimonies from Holocaust survivors, as well as the victims of 'ordinary' trauma, C. Fred Alford shows that, while the traumatized are generally capable of representing their experience, this does little to heal them. He draws on the British Object Relations tradition in psychoanalysis to argue that forgiveness, which might be expected to help heal the traumatized, is generally an attempt to avoid the hard work of mourning losses that can never be made whole. Forgiveness is better seen as a virtue in the classical sense, a recognition of human vulnerability. The book concludes with an extended case study of the essayist Jean Améry and his refusal to forgive. 0aPsychic trauma 0aForgiveness 0aPsychology08iPrint version: z978110704340440uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107338326zCambridge Books Online  c236782d236782