Pillar of Salt: Gender, Memory, and the Perils of Looking BackRutgers University Press, 1998 - 332 pages Pillar of Salt introduces the controversy over recollections of childhood sexual abuse as the window onto a much broader field of ideas concerning memory, storytelling, and the psychology of women. The book moves beyond the poles of "true" and "false" memories to show how women's stories reveal layers of gendered and ambiguous meanings, spanning a wide historical, cultural, literary, and clinical landscape. The author offers the concept of transformative remembering as an alternative framework for looking back, one that makes use of fantasy in understanding the narrative truth of childhood recollections.Haaken provides an alternative reading of clinical material, showing how sexual storytelling transcends the symbolic and the "real" and how cultural repression of desire remains as problematic for women as the psychological legacy of trauma. |
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... authority to define the cultural past , the project of remembering is also a struggle for a new way of looking back . When the master's creation is called into question , so too are his tools - the very methods of arriving at the truth ...
... authority to define the cultural past , the project of remembering is also a struggle for a new way of looking back . When the master's creation is called into question , so too are his tools - the very methods of arriving at the truth ...
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... authority in shaping them . How , then , does this clinical context shape the creation of memory ? And why do so many therapists now speak more of trauma and dissociation , and less of internal con- flict , in framing emotional problems ...
... authority in shaping them . How , then , does this clinical context shape the creation of memory ? And why do so many therapists now speak more of trauma and dissociation , and less of internal con- flict , in framing emotional problems ...
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... authority based on submission to the absolute rule of the Father . And it is a story of repression , with the fantasy of an all - good father as the central motif . Like the sparing of Noah's family , the spiriting away of Lot on the ...
... authority based on submission to the absolute rule of the Father . And it is a story of repression , with the fantasy of an all - good father as the central motif . Like the sparing of Noah's family , the spiriting away of Lot on the ...
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... authority brought about by the women's movement require complex readings of the legendary past and alter- native ways of looking back . Adult survivors of incest - whether real or " imagined " -confront daunting problems in charting a ...
... authority brought about by the women's movement require complex readings of the legendary past and alter- native ways of looking back . Adult survivors of incest - whether real or " imagined " -confront daunting problems in charting a ...
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... authority in chronicling family life and in regulating sexual matters ; indeed , women are the gatekeepers of family and sexuality . Why then are women's stories of childhood abuse and incest now being so aggressively challenged ? One ...
... authority in chronicling family life and in regulating sexual matters ; indeed , women are the gatekeepers of family and sexuality . Why then are women's stories of childhood abuse and incest now being so aggressively challenged ? One ...
Contents
FAMILY REMEMBRANCES A Daughter and a Mother Look Back | 19 |
THE GHOST IN THE MACHINE Emotion and the Science of Memory | 39 |
THE TRAUMA MODEL Insights and Hysterical Blind Spots | 60 |
PSYCHOANALYTIC FEMINISM Bridging Private and Public Remembrances | 84 |
SOCIAL REMEMBERING AND THE LEGENDARY PAST | 109 |
HYPNOTIC ENCOUNTERS Eroticized Remembering and Altered States | 129 |
HYSTERICAL HEROINES | 152 |
TESTIFYING TO TRAUMA The Sexual Abuse Recovery Movement and Feminist Clinical Practice | 177 |
SPEAKING IN TONGUES Multiplicity and Psychiatric Influence | 198 |
BETWEEN THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP Satanic Ritual Abuse Narratives and Cultural Crises | 222 |
SEX LIES AND THERAPY | 245 |
LOOKING BACK AND LOOKING FORWARD | 266 |
Notes | 277 |
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Pillar of Salt: Gender, Memory, and the Perils of Looking Back Janice Haaken No preview available - 1998 |
Pillar of Salt: Gender, Memory, and the Perils of Looking Back Janice Haaken No preview available - 1998 |
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