Geneologies: Scotland and Canada

Abstract

This essay is an individual reflection on the analyst’s personal history of loss and developmental trauma, as well as part of a theoretical exploration of the unconscious forces always at play in analytic work. The author recalls her early life with her nanny, a woman whose tragic and difficult life history significantly interacts with her own family history of war, loss, and migration.

Keywords:

• development
• loss
• memory
• mourning
• trauma.

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Notes on contributors

Adrienne Harris

Adrienne Harris, PhD, is faculty and supervisor at the NYU Postdoctoral Program and at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California. She is the author of Gender as Soft Assembly.