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  • Testimony

    Crises of Witnessing in Literature, Psychoanalysis and History

    In this unique collection, Yale literary critic Shoshana Felman and psychoanalyst Dori Laub examine the nature and function of memory and the act of witnessing, both in their general relation to the acts of writing and reading, and in their particular relation to the Holocaust. Moving from the literary to the visual, from the artistic to the autobiographical, and from the psychoanalytic to the ... Read more

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  • Psychoanalysis and Holocaust Testimony

    Unwanted Memories of Social Trauma

    Edited by Dori Laub, Andreas Hamburger ...
    Series series Relational Perspectives Book Series
    Psychoanalytic work with socially traumatised patients is an increasingly popular vocation, but remains extremely demanding and little covered in the literature. In Psychoanalysis and Holocaust Testimony, a range of contributors draw upon their own clinical work, and on research findings from work with seriously disturbed Holocaust survivors, to illuminate how best to conduct clinical work with ... Read more

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  • Essays in Understanding, 1930-1954

    Formation, Exile, and Totalitarianism

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