Victimhood, Vengefulness & the Culture of Forgiveness

Buch | Softcover

231 Seiten

2013
Nova Science Publishers Inc (Verlag)
978-1-62257-781-1 (ISBN)

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Victimhood, vengefulness and forgiveness are topics which are strongly felt in the everyday lives of many people but not investigated enough as subjects for psychoanalytic methods. In the case of victimhood, people may feel that suffering may be abused to the point of exempt of concern for others and self-justification of causing suffering to others. This form of abuse may arise guilt and/or anger and in some cases may result in no-win situations in which mutual aggression prevents any possibility of reconciliation. In the case of vengefulness, wishes for revenge might evoke fear, anger and moral indignation which eventually might push some people towards acting out vengefulness in a destructive way. Forgiveness might be suspected as an impossible illusion which undermines constructive vision and learning from experience. By writing this book the authors try to make these concepts acknowledged, understood dynamically and accepted emphatically. Victimhood, vengefulness and forgiveness represent a course of transformation from destructive emotions and attitudes to a prospect of reconciliation.

Foreword; Introduction: How this Book Came into Being or Personal Motivations; Post-traumatic Victimhood: Between Recovery & Fixation; Post-traumatic Victimhood & Psychoanalysis; Social & National Victimhood: The Sociopolitical Aspect; Vengefulness : A Discredited Emotion; Vengeful Wishes: What Are they about? The Communicative Function of Vengefulness; "Am I my Brothers Keeper?" Vengefulness as a Link towards Reconnecting; To Live with Enemies & the "Impossible" Task to Think on Forgiveness; Mourning & Forgiveness as Parts of a Healing Process; On the Culture of Forgiveness as Essential for Reconciliation; Index.

Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	180 x 260 mm
Gewicht	432 g
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-62257-781-7 / 1622577817
ISBN-13	978-1-62257-781-1 / 9781622577811
Zustand	Neuware