On Mourning Social Injury

Moglen, Seth

doi:10.1057/palgrave.pcs.2100032

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“…Such traumas remind us of the major and ruptural events that may impact upon individual or collective lives. However, Moglen (2005) has suggested the possible value of Masud Khan's concept of 'cumulative trauma' (Khan, 1974) to describe the effects of the continuous everyday impingements, misfortunes and slights that characterize the lives of the powerless.…”

Section: Suffering Enactedmentioning

confidence: 99%

Human agency and social suffering

Frost

Hoggett

2008

Critical Social Policy

153

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In this paper the authors are primarily exploring the notion of social suffering within a psychosocial paradigm. A brief outline of Bourdieu's concept of social suffering, and a similarly concise explication of the psychosocial subject as contemporarily theorized are given. The central section of the paper looks at some understandings of social suffering that are experienced internally as well as within structural inequalities and power relations. The concept of hurt is considered, offering the internalized injuries of class as an example. Loss is then examined in relation to the severing of, for example, communities and the losses of social recognition and internal esteem. The complex concept of double suffering, in which hurt accrues more hurt and is re-experienced, is then discussed. The welfare subject of contemporary policy and practice is, finally, briefly revisited.

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Section: Suffering Enactedmentioning

confidence: 99%

Human agency and social suffering

Frost

Hoggett

2008

Critical Social Policy

153

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“…These are often obscured by a focus on individual pathology despite growing evidence that links psychosis with adverse life events and social disadvantage (Read et al 2005). The reality remains, however, that the more socially disadvantaged an individual is, the more likely they are to experience psychosocial suffering (Skeggs 1997, Moglen 2005, Reay 2005, Freshwater 2006, Fisher 2007, Frost & Hoggett 2008. Furthermore, as psychology is grounded in Western discourses that define citizenship according to the norms applied to the white male bourgeois and people who do fall short of this standard are liable to be categorized as deviant.…”

Section: Post-structural Analysesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Methodology and mental illness: resistance and restorying

Fisher

Freshwater

2013

Psychiatric Ment Health Nurs

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Accessible summary• This paper compares two post-modern methodological approaches, poststructuralist and narrative, and considers their usefulness in relation to emancipatory research in mental health.• The paper finds that post-structural analyses can be useful in deconstructing oppressive practices and in indicating emerging forms of resistance.• Narrative approaches potentially offer greater emancipatory scope than poststructuralism as they enable people with mental health problems to restore their lives and enact their own subjective transformation.• However, narrative templates may perpetuate injustice if they erase the complexity of people's stories. This raises ethical issues in relation to narrative interpretation. AbstractConcerns with social justice have been traditionally associated with a modernist concept of the individual whose actions express an underlying, essential and unified self. This paper compares the usefulness of two methodologies (post-structuralist and narrative) that are based on a rejection of identity of a unified self and compares their usefulness in relation to the development of a social justice paradigm within mental health. It considers how professional forms of knowledge may be deconstructed by post-structural analyses, arguing that these have also been used by service users to articulate more enabling discursive alternatives. The notion of agency is central to our understanding of social justice. We question the commonly held assumption that although post-structuralism deconstructs power and challenges its legitimacy, it is nevertheless unsuited to facilitating the necessary agency to put forward viable alternatives. The second half of the paper considers how narrative research offers greater emancipatory potential by enabling the research subject to author their stories and thereby brings about their own subjective transformation. Nevertheless, the interpretation of people's stories by researchers may result in the imposition of narrative templates that erase complexities and contribute to the perpetuation of oppression. This raises ethical implications in relation to how people's stories are interpreted.

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“…She expressed unhappiness at the possible implication that she wanted to escape from her original class position as if, as she put it, 'you shouldn't want to be working class, you shouldn't be proud to be working class'. This helps clarify a crucial issue -change is not about abandoning an original identity but about transforming it -a distinction which, as Moglen (2005) notes, has been obscured by a number of North American scholars who have used Freud's Mourning and Melancholia (1917) to theorise the grieving of social injuries.…”

Section: Unknowing Agencymentioning

confidence: 99%

Identity, Life History and Commitment to Welfare

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Using detailed extracts from two life histories, this article examines the nature of the personal identifications that often underpin the commitment of welfare workers to their jobs. We explore the paradox that it is those identifications such as class and gender, mediated through individual biography, that fix the 'self as object' and that also provide us with the resources for self-transformation. In this respect, the article not only throws light upon the psychical and emotional roots of commitment to the other, but also upon some of the impasses 'identity theory' currently finds itself in.

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On Mourning Social Injury

Cited by 25 publications

References 9 publications

Human agency and social suffering

Human agency and social suffering

Methodology and mental illness: resistance and restorying

Identity, Life History and Commitment to Welfare

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