The Unsayable

Author : Annie Rogers
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2008-11-26
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780307492388

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The Unsayable by Annie Rogers Pdf

In her twenty years as a clinical psychologist, Annie Rogers has learned to understand the silent language of girls who will not–who cannot–speak about devastating sexual trauma. Abuse too painful to put into words does have a language, though, a language of coded signs and symptoms that conventional therapy fails to understand. In this luminous, deeply moving book, Rogers reveals how she has helped many girls find expression and healing for the sexual trauma that has shattered their childhoods. Rogers opens with a harrowing account of her own emotional collapse in childhood and goes on to illustrate its significance to how she hears and understands trauma in her clinical work. Years after her breakdown, when she discovered the brilliant work of French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, Rogers at last had the key she needed to unlock the secrets of the unsayable. With Lacan’s theory of language and its layered associations as her guide, Rogers was able to make startling connections with seemingly unreachable girls who had lost years of childhood, who had endured the unspeakable in silence. At the heart of the book is the searing portrait of the girl Rogers calls Ellen, brutally abused for three years by her teenage male babysitter. Over the course of seven years of therapy, Rogers helped Ellen find words for the terrible things that had happened to her, face up to the unconscious patterns through which she replayed the trauma, and learn to live beyond the shadows of the past. Through Ellen’s story, Rogers illuminates the complex, intimate unraveling of trauma between therapist and child, as painful truths and their consequences come to light in unexpected ways. Like Judith Herman’s Trauma and Recovery and Kay Redfield Jamison’s An Unquiet Mind, The Unsayable is a book with the power to change the way we think about suffering and self-expression. For those who have experienced psychological trauma, and for those who yearn to help, this brave, compelling book will be a touchstone of lucid understanding and true healing.

Author : William P. Franke
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780268079772

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A Philosophy of the Unsayable by William P. Franke Pdf

In A Philosophy of the Unsayable, William Franke argues that the encounter with what exceeds speech has become the crucial philosophical issue of our time. He proposes an original philosophy pivoting on analysis of the limits of language. The book also offers readings of literary texts as poetically performing the philosophical principles it expounds. Franke engages with philosophical theologies and philosophies of religion in the debate over negative theology and shows how apophaticism infiltrates the thinking even of those who attempt to deny or delimit it. In six cohesive essays, Franke explores fundamental aspects of unsayability. In the first and third essays, his philosophical argument is carried through with acute attention to modes of unsayability that are revealed best by literary works, particularly by negativities of poetic language in the oeuvres of Paul Celan and Edmond Jabès. Franke engages in critical discussion of apophatic currents of philosophy both ancient and modern, focusing on Hegel and French post-Hegelianism in his second essay and on Neoplatonism in his fourth essay. He treats Neoplatonic apophatics especially as found in Damascius and as illuminated by postmodern thought, particularly Jean-Luc Nancy’s deconstruction of Christianity. In the last two essays, Franke treats the tension between two contemporary approaches to philosophy of religion—Radical Orthodoxy and radically secular or Death-of-God theologies. A Philosophy of the Unsayable will interest scholars and students of philosophy, literature, religion, and the humanities. This book develops Franke's explicit theory of unsayability, which is informed by his long-standing engagement with major representatives of apophatic thought in the Western tradition.

Author : Søren Ivarsson,Lotte Isager
Publisher : Nordic Institute of Asian Studies
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 8776940721

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Saying the Unsayable by Søren Ivarsson,Lotte Isager Pdf

The Thai monarchy today is usually presented as both guardian of tradition and the institution to bring modernity and progress to the Thai people. It is moreover seen as protector of the nation. Scrutinizing that image, this volume reviews the fascinating history of the modern monarchy. It also analyses important cultural, historical, political, religious, and legal forces shaping the popular image of the monarchy and, in particular, of King Bhumibol Adulyadej. In this manner, the book offers valuable insights into the relationships between monarchy, religion and democracy in Thailand - topics that, after the September 2006 coup d'état, gained renewed national and international interest.

Author : Deborah G. Dunleavy
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-13
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781039112506

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Unsayable Absence by Deborah G. Dunleavy Pdf

In the dusk of a disaster, Una McFadden is faced with indescribable pain and uncertainty in the middle of the Great Depression. She finds herself grieving in an asylum, wondering if she will ever see her children again. As a child growing up on the outskirts of society in the early 1900s, Una faces the hardships of backwoods life. Her only refuge is in the arms of the elderly Rachel Little Feathers whom she calls Nokomis or grandmother. As she grows, Una forges her own path, becoming friends with Eva Stanton the town suffragette, who guides Una towards a life of passion and independence. While working in a munitions factory during World War I, Una is thrust again into a new life. Worried about her brothers fighting overseas and her family back at home, she forges friendships with the other women and gives her love to a soldier who is called to serve with the Railway Troops. Unsayable Absence is an enduring historical novel of love and loss during the early years of the twentieth century. Readers who enjoy early Canadian history and the ever-changing roles of women in Canada will marvel at the adventures and challenges facing Una McFadden.

Author : Bonnie B. McConnell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781000712063

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Music, Health, and Power by Bonnie B. McConnell Pdf

Music, Health, and Power offers an original, on-the-ground analysis of the role that music plays in promoting healthy communities. The book brings the reader inside the world of kanyeleng fertility societies and HIV/AIDS support groups, where women use music to leverage stigma and marginality into new forms of power. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted over a period of 13 years (2006–2019), the author articulates a strengths-based framework for research on music and health that pushes beyond deficit narratives to emphasize the creativity and resilience of Gambian performers in responding to health disparities. Examples from Ebola prevention programs, the former President’s AIDS “cure,” and a legendary underwear theft demonstrate the high stakes of women’s performances as they are caught up in broader contestations over political and medical authority. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of ethnomusicology, medical anthropology, and African studies. The accompanying audio examples provide access to the women’s performances discussed in the text.

Author : Annie G. Rogers
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1996-08-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781440621093

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A Shining Affliction by Annie G. Rogers Pdf

"Soars into sublime meditation...what makes this book so extraordinary is her willingness to reveal exactly what goes on in the sometimes mysterious encounter between therapist and patient."—The Los Angeles Times. A moving account of a true-life double healing through psychotherapy. In this brave, iconoclastic, and utterly unique book, psychotherapist Annie Rogers chronicles her remarkable bond with Ben, a severely disturbed five-ear-old. Orphaned, fostered, neglected, and forgotten in a household fire, Ben finally begins to respond to Annie in their intricate and revealing platy therapy. But as Ben begins to explore the trauma of his past, Annie finds herself being drawn downward into her own mental anguish. Catastrophically failed by her own therapist, she is hospitalized with a breakdown that renders her unable to speak. Then she and her gifted new analyst must uncover where her story of childhood terror overlaps with Ben's, and learn how she can complete her work with the child by creating a new story from the old—one that ultimately heals them both.

Author : John C. Van Dyke
Publisher : Univ Tennessee Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 162190623X

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Poetic Creation by John C. Van Dyke Pdf

"In Poetic Creation, John Van Dyke explores the turn in Robert Penn Warren's poetry toward the problematic nature of language and argues that such an attention to language discloses a shift away from a modernist critical paradigm (that conceives of language as tool) and toward a more postmodern conception of language as an endless play of difference. Such difference is found in Warren in the unresolvable tension between the "sayable" and the "unsayable." Warren's struggle within this tension of language is not articulated within the context of a clearly defined philosophy or theory; rather, it is conceived through the poet's own unrelenting attention to poiesis-the act of poetic creation itself"--

Author : Sanford Budick,Wolfgang Iser
Publisher : Irvine Studies in the Humaniti
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0804724830

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Languages of the Unsayable by Sanford Budick,Wolfgang Iser Pdf

This volume brings together fifteen outstanding literary theorists and philosophers to examine ways to make the unsayable--that which has been excluded by what is sayable--tangible.

Author : Giuliano Di Bernardo
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9062039480

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Normative Structures of the Social World by Giuliano Di Bernardo Pdf

Author : Ruthellen Josselson,Amia Lieblich
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1999-04-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781452249353

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Making Meaning of Narratives by Ruthellen Josselson,Amia Lieblich Pdf

The sixth volume in this series provides: guides for doing qualitative research; analysis of several autobiographies; hints on how to interpret what is not said in narrative interviews; discussion on how cultural meanings and values are transmitted across generations; and illustrations of the transformational power of stories.

Author : Arindam Chakrabarti,Ralph Weber
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781472576255

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Comparative Philosophy without Borders by Arindam Chakrabarti,Ralph Weber Pdf

Comparative Philosophy without Borders presents original scholarship by leading contemporary comparative philosophers, each addressing a philosophical issue that transcends the concerns of any one cultural tradition. By critically discussing and weaving together these contributions in terms of their philosophical presuppositions, this cutting-edge volume initiates a more sophisticated, albeit diverse, understanding of doing comparative philosophy. Within a broad conception of the alternative shapes that work in philosophy may take, this volume breaks three kinds of boundaries: between cultures, historical periods and sub-disciplines of philosophy such as metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, aesthetics, and political philosophy. As well as distinguishing three phases of the development of comparative philosophy up to the present day, the editors argue why the discipline now needs to enter a new phase. Putting to use philosophical thought and textual sources from Eurasia and Africa, contributors discuss modern psychological and cognitive science approaches to the nature of mind and topics as different as perception, poetry, justice, authority, and the very possibility of understanding other people. Comparative Philosophy without Borders demonstrates how drawing on philosophical resources from across cultural traditions can produce sound state-of-the-art progressive philosophy. Fusing the horizons of traditions opens up a space for creative conceptual thinking outside all sorts of boxes.

Author : Richard Gaskin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351017015

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Tragedy and Redress in Western Literature by Richard Gaskin Pdf

This book offers a unique interpretation of tragic literature in the Western tradition, deploying the method and style of Analytic philosophy. Richard Gaskin argues that tragic literature seeks to offer moral and linguistic redress (compensation) for suffering. Moral redress involves the balancing of a protagonist’s suffering with guilt (and vice versa): Gaskin contends that, to a much greater extent than has been recognized by recent critics, traditional tragedy represents suffering as incurred by avoidable and culpable mistakes of a cognitive nature. Moral redress operates in the first instance at the level of the individual agent. Linguistic redress, by contrast, operates at a higher level of generality, namely at the level of the community: its fundamental motor is the sheer expressibility of suffering in words. Against many writers on tragedy, Gaskin argues that language is competent to express pain and suffering, and that tragic literature has that expression as one its principal purposes. The definition of tragic literature in this book is expanded to include more than stage drama: the treatment stretches from the Classical and Medieval periods through to the early twentieth century. There is a special focus on Sophocles, but Gaskin takes account of most other major tragic authors in the European tradition, including Homer, Aeschylus, Euripides, Virgil, Seneca, Chaucer, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Corneille, Racine, Lessing, Goethe, Schiller, Kleist, Büchner, Ibsen, Hardy, Kafka, and Mann; lesser-known areas, such as Renaissance neo-Latin tragedy, are also covered. Among theorists of tragedy, Gaskin concentrates on Aristotle and Bradley; but the contributions of numerous contemporary commentators are also assessed. Tragedy and Redress in Western Literature: A Philosophical Perspective offers a new and genuinely interdisciplinary perspective on tragedy that will be of considerable interest both to philosophers of literature and to literary critics.

Author : Ruthellen Josselson,Amia Lieblich
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1999-04-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780761903277

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Making Meaning of Narratives by Ruthellen Josselson,Amia Lieblich Pdf

Contributors from five countries, in fields including criminology, literature studies, nursing, psychology, and sociology, explore issues such as how to make meaning of narrative interviews by considering the problem of interpreting what is not said, how cultural meanings about gender are transmitted across generations, and uses of the transformati.

Author : Havi Carel,David Gamez
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2004-05-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780826472427

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What Philosophy Is by Havi Carel,David Gamez Pdf

This book addresses the question What is Philosophy? by gathering together responses from philosophers working in a variety of areas. The resulting collection provides focused discussions of the character and methods of philosophy and its relationship with other disciplines.

Author : Gill Rye,Michael Worton
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0719062276

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Women's Writing in Contemporary France by Gill Rye,Michael Worton Pdf

This introduction to and analysis of women's writing in contemporary France includes both new writers of the 1990s and their more established counterparts. It situates these authors and their texts at the centre of the trends and issues concerning modern French literary production.