Afterwards—Forgetting, Remembering, Transmitting : Extreme Trauma and Culture in Post-National-Socialist Germany

Facing the rupture the Shoah marks in the history of humanity and in the life of survivors and their relatives, this article approaches long-term psychosocial consequences—after Auschwitz. The dimensions of “forgetting” in post-Nazi Germany are brought into focus by the remembering and passing on of extreme traumatic experiences of persecution.

 

To gain insights into these processes, this article differentiates between traumatization and extreme traumatization. Survivors remember and pass on their experiences of persecution, especially through non-verbal communication and in the form of unconsciously shaped “scenes.” This Scenic Memory of the Shoah is conveyed in relationships with descendants, to fellow human beings, to the environment and thus also in experiences of anti-Semitism in Germany today. The fact that extreme traumatization is expressed precisely in scenes of coexistence also means that it must be understood as an embedded factor in society, in culture—in forgetting and remembering “afterwards.



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Reference: 
Kurt Grünberg | 2022
In: American Journal of Psychoanalysis ; ISSN: 0002-9548 | 82 | 405-425
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s11231-022-09368-5
Keywords: 
Cultural Values, Family Members, Germans, Intergenerational Effects, Long-term mental health, Persecution, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Psychosocial impact, Psychotrauma, PTSD (en), Remembrance, Survivors, World War II