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Book SynopsisThis book locates internally focused, critical perspectives regarding the social, political, emotional, and mental growth of children. Through the radical openness afforded by psychoanalytic and related frameworks, the goal of this volume is to illuminate, promote, and help situate subjectivities that are often blotted out for both the child and society. Developmental and linear assumptions and hegemonies are called into question. Chapters address the challenges involved in working with children who have experienced traumas of dis-location that do not fit neatly into normative theories of development The emphasis is on motifs of lostness and foundness, in terms of the geographies of the psycho-social, and how such motifs govern and regulate what have come to count as the normative indexes of childhood as well as how they exclude other real childhoods. What is ‘lost’ in childhood finds its way into narratives of loss in adult functioning and these narratives are of interest since they allow us to re-theorize ideas of child, family, and society. To that end, these essays focus in and on dissociated places and moments across varied childhood(s).
Table of ContentsList of Figures
Foreword
Annie G. Rogers
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Meditations on Precarity in Childhood
Michael O’Loughlin, Carol Owens & Louis Rothschild
Part I: Times
Chapter 1. Found Objects Of/As Re-Membering Through the Lens of Child as Method
Erica Burman
Chapter 2. “School Is a Time-out in My Tough Life!” Use of Pause, Bridge and Intermittence as Resources for Student Development in School
Ana Archangelo, Fábio Camargo Bandeira Villela, & Rosiane Cristina dos Santos
Chapter 3. Making Space for the Unfathomable: Liminality in Inner City Schools
Aileen Schloerb
Chapter 4. Psychoanalyzing “From Both Sides Now”: At the Extremities of Adolescence – “The Tweenies” and “The Twenties” as New Geo-Psychical Positions
Carol Owens & Jamieson Webster
Chapter 5. Childhood and Adolescence: The Familiar Strangeness of Virtuality
Liora Stavchansky
Part II: Places
Chapter 6. “I Love You More”: Making Childing Visible. Children’s Emotional Labor in Affluent Libidinal Economies
Anne-Marie Cummins
Chapter 7. Uncertain, Shaky, Touch-And-Go? The Precarity of Children’s Mental Health in Aotearoa New Zealand
Kaye P. Cederman
Chapter 8. Storying: Re-Writing History of Children and Families in Migration
Elizabeth Quintero
Chapter 9. States of Nowhere-Ness in Children and Adolescents
Ionas Sapountzis
Chapter 10. Inconspicuous Precarity: The Impossibility of the Inherently Creative Child
Katherine Martin
Part III: Identities
Chapter 11. The Weaponization of Childhood in Mussolini’s Ethiopian Laboratory and Its Revenants in the Present Day Italy
Paula Salvio
Chapter 12. Necrophobia as a Nihilistic Preoccupation in Paternal Fantasies of Maturation Gone Awry
Louis Rothschild
Chapter 13. Re-Finding Lost Boys: Lessons from Literature and the Clinic
Marilyn Charles
Chapter 14. Fractional Distillation: On Psychoanalysis’ (Mis)Formulation of Autistic Children
Ben Morsa
Chapter 15. Negotiating Agency in the Formation of Subjectivity: The Child, the Parental
Other, and the Sovereign Other
Michael O’Loughlin
About the Contributors
