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Those Who Come After: Postmemory, Acknowledgement and Forgiveness

Those Who Come After: Postmemory, Acknowledgement and Forgiveness

Frosh, Stephen

Paperback

Series: Studies in the Psychosocial

CognitionGeneral PsychologyHistoriography

ISBN10: 3030148556
ISBN13: 9783030148553
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Apr 13 2019
Pages: 246
Weight: 0.72
Height: 0.57 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

This book explores the legacies of suffering in relation to 'those who come after' - the descendants of victims, survivors and perpetrators of traumatic events. It draws on recent discussions of 'postmemory' and 'haunting' that are concerned mainly with the transgenerational impact of personal and social trauma. It examines how we are connected to past events for which we have no direct responsibility yet in which we might in some way be 'implicated' and it asks how we might attain a position of active witnessing that helps resolve the suffering of others. Those Who Come After includes vivid accounts of witnessing from a variety of perspectives, ranging from Biblical and Jewish stories to contemporary art and music. The book draws on psychosocial studies and psychoanalysis to help make sense of this material and to develop an understanding of acknowledgment and responsibility that is both ethical and emancipatory. Those Who Come After will be of great interest to readers in psychosocial studies and psychoanalysis and to all who are concerned with the question of how to put past suffering to rest.

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