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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... disturbing questions circling around the debate that make it difficult to settle on an adequate version of the truth without further investigation . Why , for example , do so many of the memories women are recovering involve sexual ...
... disturbing questions circling around the debate that make it difficult to settle on an adequate version of the truth without further investigation . Why , for example , do so many of the memories women are recovering involve sexual ...
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... disturbing void , one into which traditional theological interpretations are often projected , but it also may be employed as a metaphor for a generative , symbolic space opened up for feminist analysis . Like Lot's wife , women have ...
... disturbing void , one into which traditional theological interpretations are often projected , but it also may be employed as a metaphor for a generative , symbolic space opened up for feminist analysis . Like Lot's wife , women have ...
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... disturbing side of the ambivalence . It means continuing vigilance in warding off negative feelings toward those on whom we depend for survival and a chronic sense of the dangerous consequences of rebellious impulses . Overt rebellion ...
... disturbing side of the ambivalence . It means continuing vigilance in warding off negative feelings toward those on whom we depend for survival and a chronic sense of the dangerous consequences of rebellious impulses . Overt rebellion ...
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... disturbing , leading to a reactive retreat into overly " scientistic " reinterpretations . Indeed , scientific meth- ods can provide coherence and analytical clarity . In topics that are emotionally charged and febrile , the ...
... disturbing , leading to a reactive retreat into overly " scientistic " reinterpretations . Indeed , scientific meth- ods can provide coherence and analytical clarity . In topics that are emotionally charged and febrile , the ...
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... disturbing , dys- phoric states , on the one hand , and arousing , excitatory states on the other . In a sense , the memory controversy is more about emotion , distress , and bodily arousal than it is about memory per se . The activity ...
... disturbing , dys- phoric states , on the one hand , and arousing , excitatory states on the other . In a sense , the memory controversy is more about emotion , distress , and bodily arousal than it is about memory per se . The activity ...
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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