Transgenerational Haunting in Psychoanalysis

Toxic Errands

Maurice Apprey, William F. Cornell

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9781032484297
• eBook ISBN: 9781000990461
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Mental Health in Psychology
• Index: Psychology

In this book, Maurice Apprey continues his unique work on transgenerational haunting to explore how events in our ancestors' lives may be renegotiated and re-subjectivized in the present from within the therapeutic dyad.

With an informed and impassioned voice that evokes the tragic psychic consequences of the unresolved, silenced tragedies and transgressions that haunt subsequent generations, Apprey illustrates how the analyst can unfold a patient's transference wishes and emancipate them from the unconscious projects, or errands, they have inherited. This can happen through a threefold process of excavating the unconscious sedimentations of ancestral history, appropriating and reactivating the ancestral errands within the transference, and subsequently decoding the patient's transference pressures. Expanding on Apprey's work about the analyst's field of inquiry and ways of listening in clinical practice, this book illuminates the potential for a resolution, rather than a re-enactment, of the traumas that can haunt a family system across generations.

Attending to the manifestation of transgenerational trauma through varied clinical material, and informed by the thinking of Sigmund Freud, among others, this book will be essential reading for all psychoanalysts and psychotherapists.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Endorsements
• Half Title
• Series
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• About the Author, Editor, and Contributors
• Foreword
• Editor’s Introduction: In Consultation, My First Meeting With Maurice Apprey
• 1 Delayed Preface; or, How to Read My Work
• 2 The Urgent and the Voluntary in Errands: W.H. Auden and My Very First Intuitive Grasp of Psychoanalysis
• 3 Repairing History: Reworking Transgenerational Trauma
• 4 “Scripting” Inhabitations of Unwelcome Guests, Hosts, and Ghosts: Unpacking Elements That Constitute Transgenerational Haunting
• 5 Representing, Theorizing, and Reconfiguring the Concept of Transgenerational Haunting in Order to Facilitate Healing
• 6 Difference and the Awakening of Wounds in Intercultural Psychoanalysis
• 7 Reinventing the Self in the Face of Received Transgenerational Hatred in the African American Community
• 8 A Pluperfect Errand: A Turbulent Return to Beginnings in the Transgenerational Transmission of Destructive Aggression
• 9 Three Leitmotifs for Sequencing and Transforming the Process of Transgenerational Transmission of Destructive Aggression
• 10 Transgenerational Transmission in Psychoanalysis: Dislocating Errands
• 11 “Containing the Uncontainable”: The Return of the Phantom and Its Reconfiguration in Ethnonational Conflict Resolution
• 12 “To Maurice, With Best Wishes From One Strategist and Peacemaker to Another. John”: An Evocative Reminiscence of Tension Between a Quiet Psychoanalytic Inner Voice and the Fire Outside
• 13 Emancipation From Institutionalization: A Case Study on Transgenerational Hauntings. Edward T. Novak
• 14 Thrown: A Personal Narrative of Psychoanalysis and Toxic Errands. William F. Cornell
• Afterword: Temporality and Apprey’s Hauntology for Psychoanalysis
• Index