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Psychoanalysis, Historiography, and the Nazi Camps: Accounting for Survival

Psychoanalysis, Historiography, and the Nazi Camps: Accounting for Survival

Hardcover

Series: Holocaust and Its Contexts

General European HistoryGeneral World HistoryWorld War II

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ISBN10: 3031580095
ISBN13: 9783031580093
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Jul 11 2024
Pages: 119
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.60 Depth: 7.90
Language: English

​In the postwar years, Dutch survivors Eddy de Wind, Louis Micheels, and Elie A. Cohen, who went on to become practicing psychoanalysts, penned accounts of their survival of the Nazi camps. Their sober assessments contrast sharply with those by Bruno Bettelheim and Viktor Frankl, which emphasized decisiveness, 'positive thinking', and resistance, missing the fact that many Holocaust victims with those characteristics or other qualities did not survive. De Wind's, Micheels' and Cohen's accounts are more sober, (self-)critical, and shaped by analytical practice. By analyzing them anew and comparing them with accounts by female doctors who survived Block 10 in Auschwitz, this book argues that their theories of survival accord with contemporary sensibilities in psychoanalysis and Holocaust historiography. Psychoanalytic concepts have changed over time in response to greater understanding of the Holocaust and recent Holocaust historiography makes us more receptive to insights that were unfashionable in the first postwar decades.

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