Remembering as Reparation Psychoanalysis and Historical Memory /

• Main Author: Figlio, Karl (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Series: Studies in the Psychosocial
• Subjects: Psychology.; Historiography.; World War, 1939-1945.; Psychoanalysis.; Psychology > Methodology.; Psychological measurement.; Psychosocial Studies.; Psychological Methods/Evaluation.; History of World War II and the Holocaust.; Memory Studies.

This book brings together psychoanalysis, clinical and theoretical, with history in a study of remembering as reparation: not compensation, but recognition of the actuality of perpetration and the remorseful urge to rejuvenate whatever represents this damage. Karl Figlio argues that this process, in...