Trauma, Guilt and Reparation

This illuminating book addresses the emotional blockades faced by people who have experienced severe trauma and the emergence of reparative processes which pave the way from impasse to development.

Foreword by John Steiner
Preface
Chapter One: Trauma, guilt and reparation: A psychoanalytic paradigm
Chapter Two: Impediments to reparation: Resentment, shame and wrath - the significance of the gaze
Chapter Three: Repetition compulsion and the primitive super-ego: Attempts at reparation in borderline patients
Chapter Four: The 'Tower': Submission and illusory security in a traumatic defence organisation
Chapter Five: Trauma, reparation and the limits of reparation
Chapter Six: Traumatic remembering and ecliptic forgetting: on the riddle of time in Jenny Erpenbeck's The End of Days
Chapter Seven: Reparation and gratitude
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