Jill Salberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 1718820 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jill Salberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jill |
| FAMILY NAME | Salberg |
| SIGNATURE | SALBERG J |
| AFFILIATIONS | NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, New York, New York, USA |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8071-3657 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Thinking in the “We,” Where Individual and Collective Traumas Meet
Bakó and Zana argue in their concept of Transgenerational Atmosphere that we inhabit, without full awareness of its impact, the traumas of our families, our culture, and history. I believe that they are offering a very relational theory of trauma transmission that interpenetrates with the historical and the political allowing for both the cultural collective trauma and the trauma to the individual. They term this as a “we experience.” In my discu…
Crises and enactments while ending treatment
The difficulties involved in ending treatment are complex and can present a set of challenges and possibilities for both analyst and patient. When early trauma is part of the clinical picture, ending treatment may very well stir an experience of an earlier attachment rupture or loss. The author presents a case of a long-term analytic patient where an acute enactment crisis occurred causing a pause in ending the treatment. It is proposed that thes…
Introduction
At the end of World War II, the total number of deaths was estimated to be around 70–85 million people. Approximately 17 million of these deaths (20–25 percent of the total) were due to crimes agai
“Don’t You See I’m Burning?”
This article suggests that “fascism amnesia” has occurred when the world no longer remembers enough about the antecedents and repercussions of its history. This nonmemory can fail to prevent its recurrence. Reviewing what is happening in the United States and in the world, the author argues that these are all examples of reemerging deeply oppressive fascistic forces and the ways that regimes of power exert control over minorities, their most vuln…
Between Remembering and Forgetting
The backdrop for this paper has been the ongoing COVID pandemic and the author’s personal response to the murder of George Floyd and the enduring destructiveness of racism and white supremacy that resides here in the US In writing this paper, the author argues that currently we are witnessing and living with the formidable trans-generationally transmitted return of inherited racial hatred that had been more repressed, denied, and refused. The cha…
Again, the Personal is Political and Psychoanalytic
In the papers by Sue Grand and Jill Salberg that form the panel, When the Personal Helps Us Write the Political, both authors use autobiography to activate the text as they explore ever more elusive dimensions of whiteness. In lieu of the traditional panel discussion, a more personal approach seemed fitting. In conversation with interviewer Masha Borovikova Armyn, the stakes involved in exposing personal and political struggles on the written pag…
Maternal envy as legacy
The impact of intergenerational transmissions of trauma and the dissociative states of mind that cross from parents to their children has become an important expansion of psychoanalytic theory. Clinical material will be discussed showing how an early death of a mother haunted the lives of many generations of mothers and daughters. Considerations of attachment rupture, trauma, envy, deadly and deadening aggression and shame are discussed as part o…
When Trauma Tears The Fabric of Attachment
This discussion works to situate intergenerational transmission of Holocaust trauma literature within psychoanalysis and trauma studies, arguing that it is timely for a new appraisal of our psychoanalytic theories regarding these transmissions. I find Gomolin’s re-interpretation narrow and unpersuasive, and her focus tends to disregard current literature in psychoanalysis. I make a case for a reappraisal that is saturated with theories and resear…
Trauma, Gender, and the Stories of Jewish Women
This paper explores how trauma (individual, cultural, and historical) experiences and gender stories of women behaving more like men become intermingled. Drawing upon stories of women in Jewish literature (Beruriah and Yentl), psychoanalytic theories of gender, and intergenerational transmission of trauma, the author unpacks how women carry vulnerability and helplessness whereas men are seen as stronger and agentic. The author believes that gende…
The Texture of Traumatic Attachment
Work on the transgenerational transmission of trauma refers to unspoken stories across generations, but the actual mode of transmission has remained somewhat mysterious. Utilizing examples from her own life, the author illustrates how attachment patterns are a primary mode of transmission of trauma. When trauma revisits a person transgenerationally through dysregulated and disrupted attachment patterns, it is within the child's empathic attunemen…
Reimagining Yentl While Revisiting Feminism in the Light of Relational Approaches to Gender and Sex
This article is an imaginative endeavor based upon the short story “Yentl the Yeshiva Boy” written by Isaac Bashevis Singer (1982). In taking creative license and entering Yentl's world, a new voice and narrative emerges for her and the major characters in the story. Using psychoanalytic relational theories on multiple self-states and postmodern gender and sexuality perspectives, this article undertakes fleshing out the characters and the motives…
Who Wears the Pants Here?”
Psychoanalysis has, from Freud's earliest ideas, been drawn to comprehending and defining gender—decoding what is masculine and what is feminine. Although Freud believed that masculinity and femininity would normatively fall along biological lines, gender, as a category, very quickly became destabilized by theorists who contested Freud's view. This article looks at a case in which the analyst came to view the patient's gender performance as a for…
Etudes on Loss
The Texture of Traumatic Attachment
Work on the transgenerational transmission of trauma refers to unspoken stories across generations, but the actual mode of transmission has remained somewhat mysterious. Utilizing examples from her own life, the author illustrates how attachment patterns are a primary mode of transmission of trauma. When trauma revisits a person transgenerationally through dysregulated and disrupted attachment patterns, it is within the child's empathic attunemen…
When Trauma Tears The Fabric of Attachment
This discussion works to situate intergenerational transmission of Holocaust trauma literature within psychoanalysis and trauma studies, arguing that it is timely for a new appraisal of our psychoanalytic theories regarding these transmissions. I find Gomolin’s re-interpretation narrow and unpersuasive, and her focus tends to disregard current literature in psychoanalysis. I make a case for a reappraisal that is saturated with theories and resear…
Reimagining Yentl While Revisiting Feminism in the Light of Relational Approaches to Gender and Sex
This article is an imaginative endeavor based upon the short story “Yentl the Yeshiva Boy” written by Isaac Bashevis Singer (1982). In taking creative license and entering Yentl's world, a new voice and narrative emerges for her and the major characters in the story. Using psychoanalytic relational theories on multiple self-states and postmodern gender and sexuality perspectives, this article undertakes fleshing out the characters and the motives…
Etudes on Loss
Etudes on Loss
Who Wears the Pants Here?”
Psychoanalysis has, from Freud's earliest ideas, been drawn to comprehending and defining gender—decoding what is masculine and what is feminine. Although Freud believed that masculinity and femininity would normatively fall along biological lines, gender, as a category, very quickly became destabilized by theorists who contested Freud's view. This article looks at a case in which the analyst came to view the patient's gender performance as a for…
Reimagining Yentl While Revisiting Feminism in the Light of Relational Approaches to Gender and Sex
This article is an imaginative endeavor based upon the short story “Yentl the Yeshiva Boy” written by Isaac Bashevis Singer (1982). In taking creative license and entering Yentl's world, a new voice and narrative emerges for her and the major characters in the story. Using psychoanalytic relational theories on multiple self-states and postmodern gender and sexuality perspectives, this article undertakes fleshing out the characters and the motives…
The Texture of Traumatic Attachment
Work on the transgenerational transmission of trauma refers to unspoken stories across generations, but the actual mode of transmission has remained somewhat mysterious. Utilizing examples from her own life, the author illustrates how attachment patterns are a primary mode of transmission of trauma. When trauma revisits a person transgenerationally through dysregulated and disrupted attachment patterns, it is within the child's empathic attunemen…
Trauma, Gender, and the Stories of Jewish Women
This paper explores how trauma (individual, cultural, and historical) experiences and gender stories of women behaving more like men become intermingled. Drawing upon stories of women in Jewish literature (Beruriah and Yentl), psychoanalytic theories of gender, and intergenerational transmission of trauma, the author unpacks how women carry vulnerability and helplessness whereas men are seen as stronger and agentic. The author believes that gende…
When Trauma Tears The Fabric of Attachment
This discussion works to situate intergenerational transmission of Holocaust trauma literature within psychoanalysis and trauma studies, arguing that it is timely for a new appraisal of our psychoanalytic theories regarding these transmissions. I find Gomolin’s re-interpretation narrow and unpersuasive, and her focus tends to disregard current literature in psychoanalysis. I make a case for a reappraisal that is saturated with theories and resear…
Maternal envy as legacy
The impact of intergenerational transmissions of trauma and the dissociative states of mind that cross from parents to their children has become an important expansion of psychoanalytic theory. Clinical material will be discussed showing how an early death of a mother haunted the lives of many generations of mothers and daughters. Considerations of attachment rupture, trauma, envy, deadly and deadening aggression and shame are discussed as part o…
Between Remembering and Forgetting
The backdrop for this paper has been the ongoing COVID pandemic and the author’s personal response to the murder of George Floyd and the enduring destructiveness of racism and white supremacy that resides here in the US In writing this paper, the author argues that currently we are witnessing and living with the formidable trans-generationally transmitted return of inherited racial hatred that had been more repressed, denied, and refused. The cha…
Again, the Personal is Political and Psychoanalytic
In the papers by Sue Grand and Jill Salberg that form the panel, When the Personal Helps Us Write the Political, both authors use autobiography to activate the text as they explore ever more elusive dimensions of whiteness. In lieu of the traditional panel discussion, a more personal approach seemed fitting. In conversation with interviewer Masha Borovikova Armyn, the stakes involved in exposing personal and political struggles on the written pag…
Introduction
At the end of World War II, the total number of deaths was estimated to be around 70–85 million people. Approximately 17 million of these deaths (20–25 percent of the total) were due to crimes agai
“Don’t You See I’m Burning?”
This article suggests that “fascism amnesia” has occurred when the world no longer remembers enough about the antecedents and repercussions of its history. This nonmemory can fail to prevent its recurrence. Reviewing what is happening in the United States and in the world, the author argues that these are all examples of reemerging deeply oppressive fascistic forces and the ways that regimes of power exert control over minorities, their most vuln…
Crises and enactments while ending treatment
The difficulties involved in ending treatment are complex and can present a set of challenges and possibilities for both analyst and patient. When early trauma is part of the clinical picture, ending treatment may very well stir an experience of an earlier attachment rupture or loss. The author presents a case of a long-term analytic patient where an acute enactment crisis occurred causing a pause in ending the treatment. It is proposed that thes…
Thinking in the “We,” Where Individual and Collective Traumas Meet
Bakó and Zana argue in their concept of Transgenerational Atmosphere that we inhabit, without full awareness of its impact, the traumas of our families, our culture, and history. I believe that they are offering a very relational theory of trauma transmission that interpenetrates with the historical and the political allowing for both the cultural collective trauma and the trauma to the individual. They term this as a “we experience.” In my discu…
Psychoanalysis (9 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Psychoanalytic theory (8 works) · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications (8 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics (3 works) · Developmental psychology (3 works)