Psychic murder and the asylum of psychosis

About the Author Esther Rashkin is a Professor of French and Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Utah and in private practice in Salt Lake City. She has published extensively on the transgenerational transmission of trauma and the relationship between personal and sociocultural catastrophe. The author of Family Secrets and the Psychoanalysis of Narrative (Princeton, 1992) and Unspeakable Secrets and the Psychoanalysis of Culture (SUNY, 2008), she also co-edits the book series Psychoanalytic Interventions (Fordham University Press).