The Compulsion of Our Failure to Remember the Holocaust
Zaleski describes the pathogenic mechanisms that come into play in Polish society: in the processes of forgetting the extermination of our fellow citizens, Polish Jews, during the Second World War, as well in the reasons behind the construction of a false historical imagination/imaginary of collecti...
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Teksty Drugie
2024
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| Online toegang: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Samenvatting: | Zaleski describes the pathogenic mechanisms that come into play in Polish society: in the processes of forgetting the extermination of our fellow citizens, Polish Jews, during the Second World War, as well in the reasons behind the construction of a false historical imagination/imaginary of collective memory. In the Polish affective memory, “the Jews” are a symptom that allows a noisy “neurotic minority” to cast the collective in the role of victim, to give permanence of phantasms and pathological structures in our collective identity. Zaleski also expresses his alarm at the fact that official public discourse is now once again sanctioning these practices. |
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