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168:. Melancholy is the result of the infant's sensing the mother's indifference at the moment of separation. Henceforth, he will be unable to mourn, having been unable to recognize loss in the mother's eyes. Weaning is a mirroring that leaves the subject both unable to mourn and unable to care—leaves the child in the state of melancholy. Melancholy for Hassoun is the result of a gesture that leaves the infant to suffer interminably for having spied the mother's indifference at the moment of weaning. 184:. Traditions subject the individual to follow patterns which may cause more damage than good. Retelling the past is another thing. It is never pure repetition but interpretation. Transmission takes the present into consideration when turning one's attention to the past. Without transmission all we have is nostalgia. 176:
Hassoun said that the need to tell the past comes up when there's a crisis: when the individual grows up; when there's the urge to preserve a culture, etc. New facts means psychological effort to adapt, this can cause a person to reject that new things/ situation. People go back to the past when
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in children of immigrants. Hassoun examined the special problems they face in processing and transmitting what is mostly communicated to them through their parents' narratives of displacement, loss and exile. He was one of the first to evoke the heritage of the
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in modern times. He wrote about their history, customs, religious observance, and languages. He showed particular interest in the
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made it possible for Jews to visit Egypt. Hassoun wrote several works on the history of the modern Jews of Egypt, among them
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in 1954 at the age of 18, where he had been exiled after being accused and imprisoned by Egyptian authorities for
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there's the need to adapt, because they consider experiences from the past a tool to survive.
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The Dispersion of Egyptian Jewry: Culture, Politics, and the Formation of a Modern Diaspora
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Hassoun traveled to Egypt with groups of compatriots when Egyptian president
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activity. He remained in France for the rest of his life. Hassoun spoke
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In Hassoun's model, the mother's attentiveness at the moment of
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and a reparative theory of transmission. He wrote about certain
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Telling the past does not mean telling somebody to follow
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Index

psychoanalyst
Jacques Lacan
depression
pathologies
Jews of Egypt
Karaite community
Anwar Sadat
Egyptian nationalism
Alexandria, Egypt
Egyptian Jewish
non-religious
Lycee De L'Union Juive
Democratic Movement for National Liberation
France
communist
French
Arabic
Hebrew
brain tumor
Paris
melancholy
weaning
infant
sense of self
mourn
indifference
traditions
The Noonday Demon: An Atlas Of Depression
ISBN
978-1-4516-7688-4

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