Memories and Monsters

Eric R. Severson is a philosopher specializing in the work of Emmanuel Levinas. He is author of the books Levinas's Philosophy of Time (Duquesne University Press, 2013) and Scandalous Obligation (Beacon Hill Press, 2011), and editor of several volumes on ethics, philosophy of religion and psychology. He currently teaches philosophy at Seattle University.David M. Goodman is a licensed clinical psychologist, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and Advising at the Woods College of Advancing Studies at Boston College, Director of the Psychology and the Other Institute, and a teaching associate at Harvard Medical School/Cambridge Hospital.

• Introduction: listening to monsters, Eric R. Severson and David M. Goodman; Chapter 1: Apocalyptic exceptionalism and existential particularity: the rise in popularity of dystopian myths and our immortal "other", Paul Cantz; Chapter 2: The Golem must live, the Golem must die: on the moral imperative of writing critical cultural histories of psychology, Philip Cushman; Chapter 3: The Golem and the decline of language and magic—or, why our machines disappoint, Joel Rosenberg; Chapter 4: Is loyalty really a virtue? Shame and the monstrous Other, Peter Shabad; Chapter 5: Toward a psychoanalysis of passion, Jerome A. Miller; Chapter 6: Living in the shadows of the past: German memory, trauma, and legacies of perpetration, Roger Frie; Chapter 7: Haunting and historicity, Jerome Veith; Chapter 8: Changing societal narratives, fighting "crimes against humanity", Doris Brothers; Chapter 9: Positioning self and other: how psychiatric patients, psychiatric inmates, and mental health care professionals construct discursively their relationship to total institutions, Branca Telles Ribeiro and Diana Souza Pinto; Chapter 10: "I am not myself, but I am not an other": self-dissolution narrative in medical rehabilitation psychotherapy, Orin Segal; Chapter 11: The idealized "other": a reparative fiction, Amira Simha-Alpern; Chapter 12: Foucault and Derrida on interiority and the limits of psychoanalyzing sexuality and madness, Peter Capretto; Chapter 13: Beautiful troubling alterity: an intersubjective response to Nabokov's Lolita, Steven Huett and George Horton; Chapter 14: The music knows: grieving existential trauma in art, music, and psychoanalysis, Malcolm Owen Slavin

"This is a top-quality volume. Severson, Goodman and a stellar collection of contributors do a great job of weaving a diverse range of approaches to the topic together into a book that sheds really fresh insight on a subject first raised by Freud, and revisited by many within and outside psychoanalysis ever since."-Donna M. Orange