The power of witnessing : reflections, reverberations, and traces of the Holocaust : trauma, psychoanalysis, and the living mind / / edited by Nancy R. Goodman and Marilyn B. Meyers

• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Routledge, , 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (395 p.)
• Disciplina: 940.53/18
• Soggetto topico: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Historiography; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Personal narratives - History and criticism; Holocaust survivors - Biography - History and criticism; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Influence; Memory - Social aspects
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: GoodmanNancy (Nancy R.) MeyersMarilyn (Marilyn B.)
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Cover; The Power of Witnessing; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface: An Invitation: Nancy R. Goodman and Marilyn B. Meyers; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Introduction: Nancy R. Goodman and Marilyn B. Meyers; Part 1: A Triptych of the Power of Witnessing; 1. The Power of Witnessing: Nancy R. Goodman; 2. Historic and Psychic Timeline: Opening and Closing the Space for Witnessing: Marilyn B. Meyers; 3. The "Anti-Train": A Metaphor for Witnessing: Nancy R. Goodman; Part 2: Reflections; 4. Testimony as Life Experience and Legacy: Dori Laub; 5. A Note on the Testimony Event: Geoffrey Hartman ; 6. A Holocaust Survivor's Bearing Witness: Henri Parens7. "Too Young to Remember": Recovering and Integratingthe Unacknowledged Known: Sophia Richman; Part 3: Reverberations; 8. Leiser's Song: Myra Sklarew; 9. Psychological Witnessing of My Mother's Holocaust Testimony: George Halasz; 10. Bergen-Belsen 2009: Renée Hartman; 11. Miklós: A Memoir of My Father: Katalin Roth; 12. The Power of Memorable Moments: Margit Meissner; 13. The Defiant Requiem: Acts of Witnessing: Marilyn B. Meyers; 14. One Thousand Days in Auschwitz: Joseph Neumann and the Will to Live: Elaine Neuman Kulp Shabad ; 15. My Lost Father: Clemens Loew16. The Shadow of Shira: Marilyn B. Meyers; Part 4: Traces; 17. Blood: Reading the Holocaust: Arlene Kramer Richards; 18. Through the Eye of the Needle: The Art of Esther Nisenthal Krinitz: Witnessing the Witness Through Filmmaking: Nina Shapiro-Perl; 19. A Photographic Commentary on the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe: Elsa Blum; 20. Opening the Mind to Trauma Through Oscillations of Focus: Learning From the Film Schindler's List: Nancy R. Goodman; 21. Giving Voice to the Silenced Through Theater: Gail Humphries Mardirosian ; 22. Witnessing the Death of Yiddish Language and Culture: Holes in the Doorposts: Arnold RichardsPart 5: Links; 23. Trauma, Therapy, and Witnessing: Marilyn B. Meyers; 24. "We're in This Too": The Effects of 9/11 on Transference, Countertransference, and Technique: Nancy R. Goodman, Harriet I. Basseches, Paula L. Ellman, and Susan S. Elmendorf; 25. What Do You Want? On Witnessing Genocide Today: Bridget Conley-Zilkic; 26. Bystandership-One Can Make a Difference: InterviewWith Ervin Staub: Nancy R. Goodman and Marilyn B. Meyers; Postscript: A Goodbye: Nancy R. Goodman and Marilyn B. Meyers ; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Witnessing comes in as many forms as the trauma that gives birth to it. The Holocaust, undeniably one of the greatest traumatic events in recent human history, still resonates into the twenty-first century. The echoes that haunt those who survived continue to reach their children and others who did not share the experience directly. In what ways is this massive trauma processed and understood, both for survivors and future generations?The answer, as deftly illustrated by Nancy Goodman and Marilyn Meyers, lies in the power of witnessing: the act of acknowledging that trauma took place
• Titolo autorizzato: The power of witnessing
• ISBN: 1-283-58992-3; 9786613902375; 0-203-85276-1; 1-136-97892-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910465393103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II