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Perverse memory and the holocaust : a psychoanalytic understanding of Polish bystanders /

"Perverse Memory and the Holocaust presents a new theoretical approach to the study of Polish memory bystanders of the Holocaust. Drawing on psychoanalytic theory, it examines representations of the Holocaust in order to explore the perverse mechanisms of memory at work, in which surface a seri...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Borowicz, Jan, 1987- (Author)
Other Authors: Golubiewski, Mikołaj, 1985- (Translator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2024.
Series:Memory studies: global constellations.
Subjects:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Poland.
Bystander effect > Poland.
Memory > Poland.
Poland > History > 1918-1945 > Historiography.
Effet du témoin > Pologne.
Pologne > Histoire > 1918-1945 > Historiographie.
Bystander effect.
Historiography.
Memory.
Poland.
1918-1945
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The blurred and the overlooked
  • Voyeurism : the Polish bystander looks with one eye
  • Fetishism : the Nazi in a uniform
  • Masochism : competitive victimization
  • Sadism : drastic returns of the dead
  • Perverse (post)memory.