Colonial Trauma

Foreword - Mariana Wikinski
Introduction: The Trouble of Acknowledging Colonial Trauma
The History of French Colonization in Algeria: A Blank Space in Memory and Politics
A Much-Needed Interdisciplinary Approach
1. Psychoanalysis and Algerian Paradoxes
Disarray of the Private and Public Spheres
God's Reinforcement of Failing Institutions
The Power of Religion and the Religion of Power
The Literary Text and the Invisible Staging of Power
The Power of the "Language, Religion and Politics"(LRP) Bloc as Revealed by Clinical Psychoanalysis
The Duplicity of Subjects Confronting Censorship from the LRP
Abandoned Citizenship and Speech Acts
2. Colonial Rupture
The Colony: The Rogue Child of the Enlightenment
Colonialism's Destruction of Social Cohesion
A Colonial Republic Divided, or the "Duty to Civilize [the] Barbarians"
1945: A Literature of Refusal is Born
Nedjma: An Esthetic of Colonial Destruction?
Disrupting Genealogical Ties: The Effect of "Renaming" Algerians in the 1880s
Subjective Catastrophes and the Disappearance of the Father as Symbolic Reference
Writing against Anonymous Filiation
Jean El Mouhoub Amrouche: A Broken Voice
 
3. Colonialism Consumed by War
1945-1954: The Necessity of War
The Impossibility of Forgetting and Madness, a "Remedy" for Disappearance
Silencing the Unforgettable Mutilation of Bodies
Toulouse, 2012: The Return of Murder
Constructing the "Nation"
The Writer's Pressing Need: Transform Disappearance into Absence
 
4. Colonialism's Devastating Effects on Post-Independence Algeria
The Mutilated Body of the Colonized and the Hunger for Reparation
Colonial Hogra and a Frantic Quest for Legitimacy
The "Orphaning" Effect of Colonialism and its Impact
Further Distortion of Patronyms
Divested of a Name: A Form of Colonial Murder
Manufacturing Erasure and Denial under Colonialism
From Colonial Trauma to Social Trauma
 
5. Fratricide: The Dark Side of the Political Order
The Emergence of

Karima Lazali is a practising psychoanalyst and clinical psychologist

"This book adds an important layer to the psychoanalytic understanding of colonial trauma and its afterlife. Beginning with her bilingual clinical practice in France and Algeria, Lazali addresses how patients differ in their response to the technologies of a 'whiting out' of an erased past. She takes up the mantle of Fanon to study intergenerational trauma and how it manifests itself in her patients, in Francophone literary texts, in the bellicose and violent struggles around religion, language, and politics, in concepts of the social, and in the relationship between individuated subjects and the group."
Ranjana Khanna, Professor of Literature at Duke University