This 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).
Michael O'Loughlin is professor in the College of Education and Health Sciences and in the programs in clinical psychology and school psychology at Adelphi University, New York. Carol Owens is a psychoanalyst and Lacanian scholar in Dublin, Ireland. Louis Rothschild is a clinical psychologist in Baltimore County, Maryland.
List 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, Fabio 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
