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REMEMBERING AS REPARATION PSYCHOANALYSIS AND HISTORICAL MEMORY S T U D I E S I N T H E P S Y C H O S O C I A L KARL FIGLIO Studies in the Psychosocial Series editors Stephen Frosh Dept of Psychosocial Studies Birkbeck, University of London London, United Kingdom Peter Redman Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Open University, Milton Keynes, UK Wendy Hollway Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Open University, Milton Keynes, UK Psychosocial Studies seeks to investigate the ways in which psychic and social processes demand to be understood as always implicated in each other, as mutually constitutive, co-produced, or abstracted levels of a single dialectical process. As such it can be understood as an interdisci- plinary field in search of transdisciplinary objects of knowledge. Psychosocial Studies is also distinguished by its emphasis on affect, the irrational and unconscious processes, often, but not necessarily, under- stood psychoanalytically. Studies in the Psychosocial aims to foster the development of this field by publishing high quality and innovative monographs and edited collections. The series welcomes submissions from a range of theoretical perspectives and disciplinary orientations, including sociology, social and critical psychology, political science, post- colonial studies, feminist studies, queer studies, management and organi- zation studies, cultural and media studies and psychoanalysis. However, in keeping with the inter- or transdisciplinary character of psychosocial analysis, books in the series will generally pass beyond their points of origin to generate concepts, understandings and forms of investigation that are distinctively psychosocial in character. More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/14464 Karl Figlio Remembering as Reparation Psychoanalysis and Historical Memory Karl Figlio University of Essex Essex, UK Studies in the Psychosocial ISBN 978-1-137-59590-4 ISBN 978-1-137-59591-1 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-59591-1 Library of Congress Control Number: 2017949537 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017 The author(s) has/have asserted their right(s) to be identified as the author(s) of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. This work is subject to copyright. 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Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Cover illustration: Drew Mountain (bw) / Alamy Stock Photo Printed on acid-free paper This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Macmillan Publishers Ltd. The registered company address is: The Campus, 4 Crinan Street, London, N1 9XW, United Kingdom To my wife, Stina Acknowledgements I want to thank the following people, who have helped me with this book. Geoff Eley has been a generous advisor and correspondent on the his- torical dimension of and sources for my thesis. Claudia Jerzak, Hedda Joyce and Steffen Kruger have read and commented on parts of the book, clarifying issues concerning German anti-memorial work, guilt and right- wing extremism. I have enjoyed and benefitted from discussions on per- sonal involvement in scholarship with Dave Bell, Matt ffytche and Michael Roper, in our ‘Essex Project’, and with Roger Frie, in discovering our common interest in psychoanalysis and German history. I have also benefitted from discussions with the German Historical Group, formed by several analysts, historians and philosophers in London with a deep interest in this area. Over many years, as a friend and colleague, Bob Hinshelwood has commented on and discussed various papers and pre- sentations that were predecessors to this book. I want to express my special gratitude to Stina Lyon, who has contrib- uted to every aspect of my project, from its inception to this book, and to Ronald Britton, who has informed every level of my thinking. Two published papers were earlier attempts to formulate my thesis, and material from them can be found throughout the book. I want to thank Wiley for permission to draw on ‘A Psychoanalytic Reflection on Collective Memory as a Psychosocial Enclave: Jews, German National vii viii Acknowledgements Identity and Splitting in German Psyche’, International Social Science Journal, 62(203–204), 2011, pp. 161–77; and Johns Hopkins University Press for permission to draw on ‘Psychoanalysis, Reparation and Historical Memory’, American Imago 71(4), 2014, pp. 417–44, especially in Chap. 9. Thanks also to Karnac for permission to draw for Chap. 4 on ‘The Dread of Sameness: Social Hatred and Freud’s “Narcissism of Minor Differences”’, in Auestad, L. (ed.) Psychoanalysis and Politics: Exclusion and the Politics of Representation, London: Karnac, 2012. Translations are mine unless otherwise indicated. ‘The Ordeal’ by Edith Breckwoldt, St Nikolai Memorial, Hamburg, Germany [Photo taken by Karl Figlio] Plaque reads: “Kein Mensch auf der ganzen Welt kann die Wahrheit verändern. Man kann sie nur suchen, sie finden und ihr dienen. Die Wahrheit ist an jedem Ort.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer Translation: No one in the world can change the truth. One can only search for it, find it and serve it. The truth is in every place. [Translated by Joanna O’Neill] Contents 1 Introduction 1 2 Th e Internal World 27 3 Psychoanalysis and the ‘Social Subject’ 45 4 Delusional Enemies 73 5 S olidarity, Catastrophe and Ambivalence 101 6 C onflicts of Remembering: The Historikerstreit 119 7 R emembering and Not-Remembering 145 8 Th e Unconscious Division of Germany 165 9 R eparation 185 xi
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