Overview
- Brings together psychoanalysis and history to explore the concept of reparation
- Explores remembering as reparation for the Holocaust in post-war Germany
- Considers two psychoanalytic ideas of reparation - remembering as reparation and manic reparation
Part of the book series: Studies in the Psychosocial (STIP)
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This psychoanalytic line of thinking converges with historical scholarship on post-war German memory and memorialization. Remembering is posited as ambivalent - it is reparative, in ‘remembering true’, with respect and self-respect. It is also manic reparative, in ‘remembering false’, shedding bondsto the actuality of history through acts of triumph and liberation.
This thoughtful book highlights new features of history and memory work, especially the importance of emotion, and will be of great value to students, academics and practitioners across the fields of psychoanalysis, memory studies, German studies and modern history.
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“Facing up to painfully complicated and actively troublesome histories and working them through -- the arduous process of really effective remembering -- requires collaborating across different kinds of knowledge and different traditions of thought. Nazism and the Holocaust present this dilemma at its most extreme. With carefully reasoned patience yet patent political urgency, Karl Figlio asks the practitioners of psychoanalysis and history to sit down together.” (Geoff Eley, Karl Pohrt Distinguished University Professor of ContemporaryHistory, University of Michigan)
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Book Title: Remembering as Reparation
Book Subtitle: Psychoanalysis and Historical Memory
Authors: Karl Figlio
Series Title: Studies in the Psychosocial
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59591-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-95549-7Published: 22 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-59591-1Published: 26 October 2017
Series ISSN: 2662-2629
Series E-ISSN: 2662-2637
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 284
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour
Topics: Psychosocial Studies, Psychological Methods/Evaluation, Psychoanalysis, History of World War II and the Holocaust, Memory Studies