Fathers and Son's, Retrospectively: The Damaged Relationship between Two Generations

Schneider, Michael; Daniel, Jamie Owen

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“…(Kundnani, 2009: 11) Herbert Marcuse, a German Jewish émigré to the US considered "the father of the new left," specifically instructed German youth to rebel against their fathers and to not take on their guilt (Marcuse, 1971: 9). A number of '68ers 14 subsequently published novels and memoirs about their struggles with their fathers, a genre called Vaterliteratur (Schneider and Daniel, 1984).…”

Section: Democratization Through Youth Rebellionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Muslim minorities as Germany’s past future: Islam critics, Holocaust memory, and immigrant integration

Özyürek

2019

Memory Studies

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A new cohort of Turkish-and Arab-background public intellectuals in Germany locate the root of problems of migrant communities in a resemblance between Islamic culture and Nazi ideology. Islam critics promote the idea that if, like the children of Nazis before them, children of Muslims can rebel against their fathers and sexually liberate themselves, they will also be able to embrace the democratic values of German society. In their bestseller books Islam critics aim to include migrants in the German national temporal framework and also enable a new interpretation of German history not as an anomaly, an evolutionary modernization story gone terribly wrong, but as an historical model that other nationalities should also pass through and come out of. By studying how highly popular Islam critics position Muslims in relation to memory of National Socialism in Germany this article asks what kind of transformation (and reproduction) is German Holocaust memory and public political culture is undergoing in its perception of its relationship with its Nazi past on the one hand and its multi-ethnic present and future on the other. It also asks what role Muslims and other minorities play in shaping, reacting to, and corresponding with these transformations. By focusing on the unlikely promise of inclusion of the Muslim minority in the German national temporality through path dependent repetition, it argues that national memory Ozyurek, Esra (2019) Muslim minorities as Germany's past future: Islam critics, holocaust memory, and immigrant integration. Memory Studies.

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Section: Democratization Through Youth Rebellionmentioning

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Muslim minorities as Germany’s past future: Islam critics, Holocaust memory, and immigrant integration

Özyürek

2019

Memory Studies

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“…Fathers are very much present in these accounts -one might note in connection with this the parallel emergence of a specific genre of 'father books' in late-70s Germany, often written by the children of Nazi perpetrators, and aiming to construct narrative accounts of the past, and of father-child relations, in place of fragments, denial, subterfuge and silence (see Schneider, 1984;Santner, 1990). No one in these texts argues that the power of the paternal imago has been weakened -rather, many of the subjects are perceived as living a dual life: their own and that of their fathers.…”

Section: Fathers In History and In Fantasymentioning

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“…Fathers are very much present in these accounts – one might note in connection with this the parallel emergence of a specific genre of ‘father books’ in late 1970s Germany, often written by the children of Nazi perpetrators, and aiming to construct narrative accounts of the past, and of father–child relations, in place of fragments, denial, subterfuge and silence (see Santner, 1990; M. Schneider, 1984).…”

Section: Fathers In History and In Fantasymentioning

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Psychoanalytic sociology and the traumas of history

ffytche

2017

History of the Human Sciences

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This article examines the way aspects of recent history were excluded in key studies emerging from psychoanalytic social psychology of the mid-twentieth century. It draws on work by Erikson, Marcuse and Fromm, but focuses in particular on Alexander Mitscherlich. Mitscherlich, a social psychologist associated with the later Frankfurt school, was also the most important psychoanalytic figure in postwar Germany. This makes his work significant for tracing ways in which historical experience of the war and Nazism was filtered out of psychosocial narratives in this period, in favour of more structural analyses of the dynamics of social authority. Mitscherlich's 1967 work The Inability to Mourn, co-authored with Margarete Mitscherlich, is often cited as the point at which the 'missing' historical experience flooded back into psychoanalytic accounts of society. I argue that this landmark publication doesn't hail the shift towards the psychoanalysis of historical experience with which it is often associated. These more sociological writers of the mid-century were writing before the impact of several trends occurring in the 1980s-90s which decisively shifted psychoanalytic attention away from the investigation of social authority and towards a focus on historical trauma. Ultimately this is also a narrative about the transformations which occur when psychoanalysis moves across disciplines.

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“…27 Michael Schneider subsequently described this melancholy as 'a depressive self-obsession, a negative narcissism, which manifests itself in the form of chronic suffering of one's own self', and observed 'an existential feeling that something is missing -a sense of disappointment over something which was never received'. 28 Sebald's oscillation from narcissism and hypochondria to apocalyptic destructivity is a late and extreme expression of the melancholy of his generation.…”

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The Sign of Saturn: Melancholy, Homelessness and Apocalypse in W.G. Sebald's Prose Narratives

Morgan

2005

German Life & Lett

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W.G. Sebald's prose narratives of the 1990s, Schwindel. Gefühle, Die Ausgewanderten and Die Ringe des Saturn, have been positively received as reflections on history and memory after Auschwitz. In the present article a more critical view of Sebald's narrative stance is suggested. Sebald shares his generation's problem of not being able to talk about postwar German identity, and hence about his own identity, other than in terms of Auschwitz. While this may lead to a sympathetic portrayal of individual lives in Die Ausgewanderten, it also involves a repression and a projection of important aspects of self‐identity. Auschwitz becomes the literary symbol of the over‐determination of Sebald's generation by the national past. In Die Ringe des Saturn Sebald's narrative melancholy escalates into an apocalyptic negativity as Auschwitz turns from a historical event into an all‐encompassing myth of destruction. The argument falls into two parts: firstly Sebald's narrative melancholy is shown to have its origins in a sense of over‐determination by the past and loss of a sense of group identity, generating a powerful counter‐movement of apocalyptic rejection; secondly his narrative perspective is contextualised in terms of the ‘left‐wing melancholy’ of postwar West German intellectuals, with reference to Lepenies's Melancholie und Gesellschaft, and Grass's Aus dem Tagebuch einer Schnecke.

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Fathers and Son's, Retrospectively: The Damaged Relationship between Two Generations

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Muslim minorities as Germany’s past future: Islam critics, Holocaust memory, and immigrant integration

Muslim minorities as Germany’s past future: Islam critics, Holocaust memory, and immigrant integration

Psychoanalytic sociology and the traumas of history

The Sign of Saturn: Melancholy, Homelessness and Apocalypse in W.G. Sebald's Prose Narratives

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