Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Figures vii
4. Preface to the Series ix
5. Psychoanalysis, History, and Historical Studies 1
6. Part I. The Construction of Memory and Historical Consciousness
7. Chapter 1. Three Memory Anchors 19
8. Chapter 2. Origin and Ritualization of Historical Awareness 33
9. Chapter 3. Identity, Overvaluation and Representing Forgetting 45
10. Part II. Shoah
11. Chapter 4. Transgenerational Trauma, Identification, and Historical Consciousness 69
12. Chapter 5. On the Myth of Objective Research after Auschwitz 83
13. Chapter 6. Understanding Transgenerational Transmission 101
14. Part III. Case Studies in Psychoanalysis and Literary Critics
15. Chapter 7. On Social and Psychological Foundations of Anti-Semitism 139
16. Chapter 8. From Religious Fantasies of Omnipotence to Scientific Myths of Emancipation 159
17. Chapter 9. Working toward a Discourse of Shame 186
18. Bibliography 202
19. Notes on the Contributors 214
20. Index 217