Broken Fathers/ Broken Sons

by Gargiulo, Gerald J.

• ISBN13: 9789042023444
• ISBN10: 9042023449
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-01-30
• Publisher: Brill Rodopi

Summary

This memoir is a story of loss and gain, of alienation and reconciliation, and of how such experiences go into the making of a psychoanalyst. In sharing his own very troubled family history, his decade as a Carmelite monk, his marriage and career as a psychoanalyst, Gargiulo shows how the diverse pieces of one?s life can fit together into something that is meaningful and real. This is one person?s life - but it relates to us all. ?We are bound together, each of us,? the author writes, ?in our living, our troubles and our joys. As we hear another's story, we are, simultaneously, writing our own autobiography.??Broken Fathers/Broken Sons is a rare combination of memoir and musing. Playful and wise, it is an ode to what is broken inside all of us, as well as to what seeks healing....it allows us to put back together both questions and quests, as we journey out of a decade of looking for a better father in God in a Carmelite monastery, into psychoanalytic practice. Out of one man?s coming to terms with the damage of a painful father/son relationship, comes a poignant and fierce cry against inequality, be it between parent and child, or analyst and patient.?Erika Duncan, NovelistFounder of Herstory Writers Workshop?In this intensely personal and humane memoir Dr. Gargiulo plumbs the depths of relationships between a father and a son. Not since Turgenev?s ?Fathers and Sons? have these issues been so keenly examined and so directly held up to scrutiny. The precepts of psychoanalytic thought brought forward by Gargiulo speak to everyman in this book that merits a place on one?s bookshelf next to the work of the great Russian novelist.?Norman Itzkowitz, Professor Emeritus, Princeton University

Author Biography

Gerald J. Gargiulo is a faculty member and former president of The Training Institute of the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis as well as of the International Forum for Psychoanalytic Education.

Table of Contents

Remembering Humpty	p. 3
Carmelite Passage	p. 23
Finding a Voice	p. 40
Mother Earth	p. 55
Talking Memories	p. 64
Running	p. 76
Interlude (Of Elephants and Kings)	p. 79
Bridges	p. 81
Holding Dreams	p. 93
Dancing with God	p. 100
The Dreaming Knight	p. 106
Grieving Lilacs	p. 114
Finding My Father	p. 126
Memory and Time	p. 131
End Thoughts	p. 136
Epilogue	p. 139
Appendix (Poems For Late Night Reading)	p. 141
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