Meaningless Suffering

David Goodman is the Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives and External Relations, Director of the Center for Psychological Humanities and Ethics, and an Associate Professor of the Practice in Counseling, Developmental, and Educational Psychology in the Lynch School of Education and Human Development at Boston College, USA. He is also an Associate Professor of the Practice in the Philosophy department in Boston College’s Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences. M. Mookie C. Manalili is a psychotherapist, professor, and researcher with particular interest in suffering, embodiment, meaning-making, narratives, memory, and ethics. He is a psychotherapist in a private group practice, utilising narrative therapy, psychoanalytic approaches, mindfulness traditions, and body-based techniques. He is also Part-Time Faculty at the School of Social Work and Research Consultant for the Morality Lab and the Center for Psychological Humanities and Ethics at Boston College, USA.

Introduction: Problematizing 'Meaningful Suffering' 1. When the Cure Is That There Is No Cure: Melancholia, Mourning, Creativity 2. Open Wounds of Racial Terror: The Elaine Race Massacre 3. Reparation: Discussion of Roger Frie's 'Open Wounds of Racial Terror: The Elaine Race Massacre' 4. Ethical Labor: A Step Towards Reparations Within Psychoanalysis 5. Some Fanonian Insights on Racism's Challenges to Psychoanalytical Practice 6. Unthought, Concealment & the Problem of the Lacanian Unconscious 7. Confessions and Quantum Uncertainties: The Violence of Language, Organismic Cells, and the Incarnation of Words 8. Anti-Black Racism in the Anthropocene: A Lacanian Reading of a Birder and a Dog-lover in Central Park 9. A Colonial Symptom: The Puerto Rican Syndrome 10. White Panic and the Rhetoric of Exposure: Confronting the Uncanny in our New Racial Times 11. Being-At-The-Intersections: Dwelling in Ambiguity, Vulnerability, and Responsibility 12. On Approaching Race, Class, and the Unconscious: A Case Study of Ataque De Nervios 13. An Intersectional Feminist Exploration of the Working Lives of Women During COVID-19: Approaching Dignified Work Through a Spirituality of Resistance Framework 14. Traumatic Racism