Why is it that victims of abuse so often become perpetrators, and what can psychoanalysis offer to these survivor-perpetrators, whose criminal conduct seems to transcend the possibilities of empathic psychoanalytic inquiry? In The Reproduction of Evil, Sue Grand engages these deeply troublesome issues in the belief that psychoanalysts can and should reclaim the study of what lies beyond ordinary human empathy. Her goal is to elucidate the link between traumatic memory and the perpetration of evil.
Key Features
- Interdisciplinary analysis combining psychoanalytic inquiry with cultural analysis.
- Intensive case studies exploring the world of survivor-perpetrators.
- In-depth examination of the psychodynamic processes and cultural tensions involved.
- Insights into the violence and fragmentation that beset society.
- Essential reading for a wide clinical audience and informative for academic and lay readers.
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Grand presents a scholarly and passionate exploration of how families and cultures transform victims of malignant trauma into perpetrators of these very traumas on others. Through well-chosen literary illustrations and clinical vignettes, she conveys the immediacy of the survivor-perpetrator's experience in a manner that may be unsettling. By interweaving psychoanalytic, sociohistorical, and literary perspectives, Grand fills a critical lacuna in the literature about trauma and its intergenerational transmission.
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