Testimony and witnessing in psychoanalysis : a literary and philosophical perspective

목차 (Table of Contents)

• CONTENTS
• Acknowledgment = xii
• Credit Lines = xiii
• Forward / Introductory by Prof. Avi Sagi = xiv
• Preface = xvi
• PART 1 What Is Spoken Testimony = 1
• 1 What Are We Talking About When Discussing Spoken
• Testimony? / ZIPI ROSENBERG SCHIPPER = 3
• What Is Spoken Testimony? = 3
• The Sources of Testimony = 4
• The Ontology of Spoken Testimony = 5
• The Structure of Testimony = 7
• The Components of Testimony : Speech = 8
• The Dominance of Eye Witnessing in the Act of Testimony = 9
• The History of the Meaning of Speech II
• How Does It Actually Happen? = 12
• Monologue versus Dialogue = 13
• Is Testimony Simulacra? = 13
• 2 A Paradigmatic Turning Point in the Understanding of the
• Concept of Testimony / ZIPI ROSENBERG SCHIPPER = 17
• Introduction = 17
• The Background to the Turning Point = 17
• The Eichmann Trial and the Film "Shoah” as Landmarks in the
• Discourse on Testimony = 18
• Changes in 'Forms' of Discourse = 18
• The Historical Context = 19
• From a Cinematic to a Formative Event = 19
• Ilie Turning Point and Its Impact = 21
• The Listening Experience = 23
• 3 Aspects and Images of Personal Testimony / ZIPI ROSENBERG SCHIPPER = 26
• Introduction = 26
• Testimony as an Ethical and Moral Act = 26
• Testimony as a Means of Relief = 27
• Testimony as a Transitional Space = 27
• Testimony as a 'Voyage Between Times’ = 28
• Motif of Survival in Spoken Testimony = 29
• Testimony as a Bridge = 30
• Immanent Elements in the Act of Testimony = 30
• 4 Spoken Testimony, Its Epistemological Status and Its Value
• Standing / ZIPI ROSENBERG SCHIPPER = 34
• Introduction = 34
• Why Was Testimony Neglected or - The Blind Spot in Positive
• Epistemology = 34
• The Domain of Testimony = 36
• Three Stations in Time = 36
• Trusting Spoken Testimony = 40
• Landmarks in the Current Debate = 41
• 5 Types of Spoken Testimony / ZIPI ROSENBERG SCHIPPER = 46
• Introduction = 46
• Legal Testimony = 46
• The Sources of Legal Testimony = 46
• Laws and ‘Halakhot’ Relating to a Witness and a Testimony = 47
• The Categories in Detail = 48
• Natural Testimony = 53
• Personal Testimony = 53
• On the Transition Between the Two Stages of Testimony and the
• Inner Witness = 55
• When Does Testimony Becomes a Psychic Moment? = 55
• The Element of Construction in Spoken Testimony and the
• Questions If Arouses = 56
• 'Memory Materials Emerge and Rise from the Body” - The
• Influence of the Martyr = 57
• Each Poem Is a Testimony = 58
• Is Personal Testimony a Dialogue? = 60
• D usting Personal Testimony = 60
• The Objective = 62
• The Special Status of Personal Testimony in the Field of
• Holocaust Research = 63
• The Power of Personal Testimony in Cultural-Social
• Change = 64
• Three Periods of the Discourse on Testimony in Israel = 66
• A Number of Comments in Concluding Part I = 67
• PART 2 Testimony as a Therapeutic Function in
• Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy = 73
• 6 Everyone Wants Their Voice to Be Heard / ZIPI ROSENBERG SCHIPPER = 75
• He = 75
• Everyone Wants Their Voice to Be Heard = 77
• 7 The Roles of Personal Testimony and Witnessing in Our Lives / ZIPI ROSENBERG SCHIPPER = 78
• Introduction = 78
• Personal Testimony Is a Relief = 78
• The Role of Testimony in Maintaining Life ’s Continuity = 79
• The Vital Role of Witnessing in the Developmental Stage = 80
• Giving Recognition = 80
• Validation = 81
• The Element of Eternalization in Spoken Testimony = 81
• 8 The Function of Testimony in Psychoanalysis and
• Psychotherapy / ZIPI ROSENBERG SCHIPPER = 84
• Introduction = 84
• The Act of Testimony Is a Distinct Therapeutic Function = 85
• 9 The History of Psychoanalysis’s Attitude to the Testimonies
• of Patients / ZIPI ROSENBERG SCHIPPER = 88
• What Do We Mean When We Say "To Believe What Patients Tell
• Us? = 92
• "Mourning and Melancholia” = 93
• Three Positions and a Call for Change = 95
• 10 Recognizing the Power of the Function of Testimony in
• Therapy / ZIPI ROSENBERG SCHIPPER = 97
• Introduction = 97
• The Change in the Perception of the Unconscious = 98
• The Change in the Role of the Analyst/Therapist = 100
• The Significant Reasons for Not Recognizing Testimony as a
• Therapeutic Function = 101
• 11 A Review of the Writings of Psychoanalytic Researchers on
• the Function of Testimony in Therapy / ZIPI ROSENBERG SCHIPPER = 104
• Introduction = 104
• Sándor Ferenczi = 104
• Alice Miller = 106
• Judith Lewis Herman = 106
• Shoshana Felman and Dori Laub = 107
• Donna Orange = 108
• Henry Seiden = 110
• Warren Poland = 112
• Lewis Aron = 114
• 12 A Unique Kind of Patient’s Testimony in the Therapeutic
• Process / ZIPI ROSENBERG SCHIPPER = 118
• Introduction = 118
• A Short Vignette Will Illustrate This Claim = 119
• 13 Summary of flic Main Characteristics of the Therapist
• as a Witness and the Patient's Testimony / ZIPI ROSENBERG SCHIPPER = 121
• Introduction = 121
• Lines Characterizing the Position of the Therapist as a
• Witness = 121
• Guidelines for the Therapist as Witness = 123
• Characteristics of the Patient's Testimony : Every Person Wants
• His Voice to Re Heard = 125
• Summary of the Two Functions of Testimony in Therapy /25
• 14 Why Testimony and Why Now? / ZIPI ROSENBERG SCHIPPER = 127
• Introduction = 127
• Opposing Worldviews Star the Psychoanalytic Thinking = 127
• Testimony in Therapy as an Intermediary Space That Moves
• Between Opposing World Views = 129
• The Element of Mutuality in Testimony in Psychoanalytic
• Therapy = 130
• Intermediary Spaces and a Third in Coping With
• Polarization = 132
• Which Third Can Fulfill the Function
• of Testimony = 133
• 15 Two Comments, Possible Criticism and Epilogue / ZIPI ROSENBERG SCHIPPER = 136
• Two Important Comments = 136
• Possible Criticism or What Has Not Been Checked = 137
• Epilogue = 138
• Index = 140