Abstract: »In Beloved, Morrison delves into the traumatizing effects of collective and individual trauma of slavery and its enduring effects on female protagonists ’mental health. Through the psychoanalytic analysis of Sethe, Beloved, and Denver, the present paper aims to unravel the genealogy of the unspeakable trauma slaves experienced. Subsequently, the text demonstrates to what extent subjugation can be the cradle of transgenerational mental disorders. Dehumanization, serial rape, childhood traumas of dysfunctional family engendered infanticide and symptoms like post-traumatic stress disorder, hysteria and severe form of depression. Both Sethe and Denver confront repressed memories conducting to adopt new paradigms of recovery in order to reposition and reconstruct their shattered selves.« (Source: Revue LiLaS)

Contents:

	Abstract (p. 165)
	Résumé (p. 165)
	Introduction (p. 166)
	1. Slavey, Love, and Insanity (p. 168)
		1.1. Female Characters and the disruption of Psyche (p. 169)
		1.1. Female Characters and the disruption of Psyche (p. 170)
	2. Beloved: "The Silver Fish", Amnesia and Historical Trauma (p. 173)
		2.1. Beloved: The Collusion of Factors and the Incarnation of Trauma (p. 173)
		2.2. The Dialogic Self (p. 174)
	3. Denver’s Psychoanalysis: Hysteria as a Retort to Trauma (p. 177)
		3.1. Repressing the Past (p. 177)
		3.2. Hysteria and Deafness as Symptoms of Psycho-trauma (p. 180)
	Conclusion (p. 181)
	Bibliography (p. 182)
	Notes (p. 184)

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