Nicht aus der Schweiz? Besuchen Sie lehmanns.de
Psychoanalysis, Historiography, and the Nazi Camps - Dan Stone

Psychoanalysis, Historiography, and the Nazi Camps

Accounting for Survival

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
VII, 119 Seiten
2024 | 2024
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-031-58009-3 (ISBN)
CHF 59,90 inkl. MwSt

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.


Dan Stone is Professor of Modern History and Director of the Holocaust Research Institute at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. He is the author, most recently, of Fate Unknown: Tracing the Missing after World War II and the Holocaust (2023) and The Holocaust: An Unfinished History (2023).

Chapter 1. Introduction: Psychoanalysis, Holocaust Historiography, and Survival.- Chapter 2. Survival Through Stupor: Eddy de Wind and Early-Postwar Psychoanalytic Studies of the Nazi Concentration Camps.- Chapter 3. The Female Doctors of Block 10 in Auschwitz: Gender, Resistance, and Survival.- Chapter 4. Revisiting Survival: Hilde O. Bluhm on Early Accounts of the Nazi Concentration Camps.- Chapter 5. Conclusion.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie The Holocaust and its Contexts
Zusatzinfo VII, 119 p.
Verlagsort Cham
Sprache englisch
Maße 148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte 1918 bis 1945
Schlagworte Auschwitz • concentration camps • Eddy de Wind • Elie A. Cohen • Louis Micheels
ISBN-10 3-031-58009-5 / 3031580095
ISBN-13 978-3-031-58009-3 / 9783031580093
Zustand Neuware
Haben Sie eine Frage zum Produkt?
Mehr entdecken
aus dem Bereich
die große Flucht der Literatur

von Uwe Wittstock

Buch | Hardcover (2024)
C.H.Beck (Verlag)
CHF 36,40
Mythos „Stauffenberg-Attentat“ – wie der 20. Juli 1944 verklärt und …

von Ruth Hoffmann

Buch | Hardcover (2024)
Goldmann (Verlag)
CHF 33,55