Therapeutic History and the Enduring Memories of Violence in Algeria and Morocco

Jebari, Idriss

doi:10.17192/meta.2018.11.7808

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“…In the social imagination, the Other, terrorism, is on our doorstep" (2017). Because it served a military purpose-that is, keeping former insurgents disarmed- (Kedidir, 2022), the national reconciliation process did not encourage a broad-based voice and recognition of the many direct and indirect victims of the conflict (Jebari, 2018). Maintaining former insurgents' protection and ensuring their reintegration into society meant that their victims had to remain silent.…”

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Trauma, protest, and therapeutic culture in Algeria since the 1980s

Henry

2023

J History Behavioral Science

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This article focuses on the shift in sensitivities that took place between the 1980s and 2019 toward psychological suffering in Algeria. Promoters of psychotherapy showed an increase in receptivity-via the media, public authorities, and the general population-to their practices and discourses during this period. Based on professional literature, interviews with psychologists, psychiatrists, and psychoanalysts, and newspaper articles and essays, this article considers the following aspects: the use of psychotherapy, the authority of psychoanalytic/psychopathological analyses, and the ethics of relation in politics. Taking a social and cultural history of politics approach, it traces the discontinuous politicization of psychotherapy over the course of events (namely the uprising of 1988, the civil war of the 1990s, and the 2019 popular movement) and examines the interactions between the state, popular mobilizations, and the psychotherapists. The civil war of the 1990s coincided with the normalization of "trauma" on a global scale, and procedures for the prevention of posttraumatic stress disorder were put in place in Algeria from 1997 onwards. In this process of legitimizing psychological suffering and its treatment, the promoters of psychotherapy who belonged to the less visible margins gained authority. The year-long protest movement (2019) against the regime performed the ethics of relation, focusing on human relations, reflexivity, and living together. Promoters of psychotherapy identified consistently with the political

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Section: Psychotherapy and "National Reconciliation"mentioning

confidence: 99%

Trauma, protest, and therapeutic culture in Algeria since the 1980s

Henry

2023

J History Behavioral Science

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Revisiting Kenya’s defunct Building Bridges Initiative: Quest for justice, or manipulation of collective memory for political expediency?

Omulo

2023

Cogent Arts & Humanities

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“You left a void that we will never be able to fill”: The legacy of Edmond Amran El Maleh in a contemporary Moroccan novella

Fischione

2023

Open Res Europe

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The sudden depart of a large portion of the Moroccan Jewish population between 1948 and 1967 left a void in Moroccan society, to the extent that some scholars account for the existence of a “double trauma” – a trauma for both those who left for Israel and the Moroccan society at large. This profound social wound has never healed. The Moroccan Jewish intellectual Edmond Amran El Maleh (1917-2010) is the hero of the novella Aḥǧiyat Idmūn ʿAmrān al-Māliḥ (The riddle of Edmond Amran El Maleh, 2020) by Mohammed Said Hjiouij, which this article analyses. In this novella, Hjiouij stages the double trauma of Jewish and Muslim Moroccans by giving voice to the liminal character of El Maleh, a harsh critic of Zionism and French colonial ideology. A metaphor for the marginal writer and a symbol of collective trauma, the figure of El Maleh is re-employed and loaded with new functions and meanings in a contemporary work of fiction with a post-modern aesthetics.

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Therapeutic History and the Enduring Memories of Violence in Algeria and Morocco

Cited by 3 publications

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Trauma, protest, and therapeutic culture in Algeria since the 1980s

Trauma, protest, and therapeutic culture in Algeria since the 1980s

Revisiting Kenya’s defunct Building Bridges Initiative: Quest for justice, or manipulation of collective memory for political expediency?

“You left a void that we will never be able to fill”: The legacy of Edmond Amran El Maleh in a contemporary Moroccan novella

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