Author: Amy Sodaro File Type: pdf Today, nearly any group or nation with violence in its past has constructed or is planning a memorial museum as a mechanism for confronting past trauma, often together with truth commissions, trials, andor other symbolic or material reparations. Exhibiting Atrocity documents the emergence of the memorial museum as a new cultural form of commemoration, and analyzes its use in efforts to come to terms with past political violence and to promote democracy and human rights. Through a global comparative approach, Amy Sodaro uses in-depth case studies of five exemplary memorial museums that commemorate a range of violent pasts and allow for a chronological and global examination of the trend the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC the House of Terror in Budapest, Hungary the Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre in Rwanda the Museum of Memory and Human Rights in Santiago, Chile and the National September 11 Memorial Museum in New York. Together, these case studies illustrate the historical emergence and global spread of the memorial museum and show how this new cultural form of commemoration is intended to be used in contemporary societies around the world. **

Author: Mitchell Newton-Matza File Type: pdf Intelligent and Honest Radicals explores the Chicago labor movements relationship to Illinois legal and political system especially as seen through the eyes of the Chicago Federation of Labor (CFL). Newton-Matza focuses on the significant era between the great strike in 1919 and Franklin D. Roosevelts inauguration and the beginning of the New Deal in 1933. He brings to light a number of victories and achievements for the labor movement in this period that are often overlooked. Newton-Matza shows the Chicago labor movement as a progressive agency intent on changing the workers world through words and peaceful actions, drawing upon their personal experiences and ideology. **Review This book sheds important new light on the Chicago labor movement and its role in shaping Illinois labor legislation, politics, and legal practices toward unions in a neglected era. (Elizabeth McKillen, The University of Maine) In Intelligent and Honest Radicals, Mitchell Newton-Matza chronicles the origins and early days of the Chicago Federation of Labor, beginning with the events in the nineteenth century that led to its foundation, resulting in a compelling study of a long-neglected historical period in recent Chicago history. Newton-Matza highlights the importance of this period and its later relevance. (Carmen Gomez-Galisteo, Universidad Camilo Jose Cela) This is bottom-up history at its best. Newton-Matza argues for a new historical examination of the early twentieth century in Chicago. By demonstrating that the 1920s were not a vast wasteland for labor, but were instead the stepping-stone for the 1930s accomplishments, he rebuilds our understanding of the legal and labor history of the period. (Scott Merriman, Troy University) It was at Chicagos Labor Day Parade that I first understood what the day truly meant, and was filled with pride for those who built our nation with their hands. Mitchell Newton-Matza takes us back in time to the dramatic evolution of the Chicago Federation of Labor from 1919 through 1933, smoldering with the violent upheavals of its day. He shows why it took a city of big shoulders to make it manifest. From the specters of Haymarket and Pullman to the Illinois Con-Con, workers tried with growing degrees of desperation to feed their families in the face of low wages and high costs. As Depression-era leaders in Washington like Hattie Caraway fought for the workers of America, so did the men and women of the Chicago labor movement. Newton-Matza tells their story. An intelligent and honest book. (Nancy Hendricks, Author of Senator Hattie Caraway An Arkansas Legacy) Dr. Newton-Matza has produced an important reconsideration of working-class activity and thought during the 1920s, filling in the gap between a period of well-documented working-class activity in the 1910s and the resurgence of the labor movement in the 1930s. Newton-Matza ably demonstrates that, despite political setbacks, a core labor movement continued to evolve and develop in the 1920s. (Steven Barleen, Northern Illinois University) About the Author Mitchell Matza received his PhD in history from The Catholic University of America.

Author: Richard Sembera File Type: pdf Metapsychology for Contemporary Psychoanalysis is a complete revision of the theoretical underpinnings of psychoanalysis and psychodynamic psychotherapy. It seeks to replace the traditional drivedefence model of Freudian tradition with an information processing model of the mind. This book argues that the central human need is for self-knowledge, and that drives are best understood as means towards this end. Richard Sembera begins with a close reading of Freuds own metapsychological writings, isolating the many unresolved difficulties and inconsistencies which continue to burden psychoanalytical theory today. By returning to the actual observable clinical phenomena in the analytic situation, it is shown that an alternative interpretation is possible that eliminates the theoretical difficulties in question. In the analytic situation, Sembera argues that clinicians do not in fact see individuals struggling against the expression of biological drives, rather they observe individuals struggling to clarify their experience of themselves in the presence of the analyst and put this experience into words. When this process is formalized and expressed in theoretical terms, it is found to consist of three distinct aspects?objectification, imagination, and symbolization. This process as a wholeascent towards the other, relationship with the other, disclosure of self in the light of the otheris termed the dialectical structure of the self. It is conceptualized as the main accomplishment of the core mental process, the process of contextualization. This work is distinguished from other attempts at theoretical revision by its fundamental commitment to coherence and clarity as well as its determination to challenge accepted psychoanalytic dogma. It argues for the complete irrelevance of biology and neuroscience to the psychoanalytic enterprise and rejects the theory of drives in its entirety. Instead it affirms the centrality of the traumatic response to mental functioning, emphasises the social matrix in which drives are embedded, re-examines the concepts of free will, accountability, and responsibility, and concludes with an attempt to understand waking life as a creative product analogous to the lucid dream.? Drawing on major psychoanalytic thinkers including Bollas and Benjamin, and current philosophy of mind, this book provides readers with a clear, updated model of metapsychology. Metapsychology for Contemporary Psychoanalysis will appeal to psychoanalysts andpsychotherapists, as well as philosophy scholars and anyone with an interest in the philosophy of psychoanalysis. **Review *Richard Sembera tacklesthe rarely discussed question of how psychoanalysis can be explained from a theoretical vantage point. In this work, he replaces Freuds meta-psychology based upon energic concepts and drive theory, with a model of explanation arising from information processing theory and developmental processes. Using cogent reasoning and clear, understandable language, Sembera offers psychoanalysts a new theoretical approach to their work, which will hopefully lead to questions about how to conceptualize psychoanalysis in the future. This is an excellent book for psychoanalysts, be they scholars or clinicians.-*Steven Rosenbloom, Training and Supervising Analyst, Canadian Institute of Psychoanalysis andAssistant Professor, Department of Psychology & Psychiatry, McGill University About the Author Richard Sembera is a Registered Psychotherapist and a Canadian Certified Counsellor. He is also a Training Candidate of the Canadian Institute of Psychoanalysis (Quebec English). He presently works in the area of psychosocial emergency preparedness and response.

Author: Benjamin John King File Type: pdf John Henry (later Cardinal) Newman is widely known to have been devoted to reading the Church Fathers. By exploring which Fathers interested Newman most and when, using both published and archive material, Benjamin J. King demonstrates the influence of the various Alexandrian theologians in different periods of Newmans life.