Precarities of 21st Century Childhoods

Michael O’Loughlin is professor at Adelphi University, New York. Carol Owens is a psychoanalyst and Lacanian scholar in Dublin, Ireland.Louis Rothschild is a clinical psychologist in Baltimore County, Maryland.

While the subject that emerges in particular moments of a treatment is marked by timelessness, the child or adolescent is a developmental being who is steeped in a particular time and place. For Freud the intrusion of the ‘accidents of history’—are moments of crisis that can be crushing, but which also offer the chance of a new foundation. This collection bring to life such times of crisis rooted in authors’ specific cultural, historical, and geographical contexts.

• List of FiguresForewordAnnie G. RogersAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Meditations on Precarity in ChildhoodMichael O’Loughlin, Carol Owens & Louis RothschildPart I: TimesChapter 1. Found Objects Of/As Re-Membering Through the Lens of Child as MethodErica BurmanChapter 2. “School Is a Time-out in My Tough Life!” Use of Pause, Bridge and Intermittence as Resources for Student Development in SchoolAna Archangelo, Fábio Camargo Bandeira Villela, & Rosiane Cristina dos SantosChapter 3. Making Space for the Unfathomable: Liminality in Inner City SchoolsAileen SchloerbChapter 4. Psychoanalyzing “From Both Sides Now”: At the Extremities of Adolescence – “The Tweenies” and “The Twenties” as New Geo-Psychical PositionsCarol Owens & Jamieson WebsterChapter 5. Childhood and Adolescence: The Familiar Strangeness of VirtualityLiora StavchanskyPart II: PlacesChapter 6. “I Love You More”: Making Childing Visible. Children’s Emotional Labor in Affluent Libidinal EconomiesAnne-Marie Cummins