Remembering as Reparation : Psychoanalysis and Historical Memory
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017
by
Karl Figlio
Book Details
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Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Studies in the Psychosocial
ISBN-10
1349955493
ISBN-13
9781349955497
Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint
Palgrave Macmillan
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 22nd, 2018
Print length
284 Pages
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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.
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, intensively studied by Melanie Klein, is shadowed by manic reparation, which simulates, but is antithetical, to it. Both aim for peace of mind: the former in a guilt-induced attitude of making better a damaged ''good object'', internal and external; the latter, supported by defences thoroughly studied in psychoanalysis, in claiming liberation from an accusatory object.
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 bonds to 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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