Psychoanalysis and state terror in Argentina

First They Came… A Response to Danielian's “A Century of Silence”

“…The magnitude of the destruction is well established, as is the silence that surrounds it -as if History has no place for it. Except from the cultural heirs of its perpetrators, its facticity is not denied, but neither is it acknowledged, to adopt the idiom from another continent, it is " disappeared, " its victims " Desaparecidos, " ( Hollander, 1992 ; Argentine Commission on the Disappeared, 1986 ) the only evidence of their existence is in the memory of those who loved them. The theme of traumatic silence is now familiar, having been associated with the small stage of family violence, the silence of combat veterans, torture victims and genocides.…”

When not knowing allies with destructiveness: global warning and psychoanalytic ethical non‐neutrality

“…When Not Knowing Allies with Destructiveness: Global Warning and Psychoanalytic Ethical Non-neutrality 1 NANCY CARO HOLLANDER For the past several years, my work has focused on how the subject incorporates aspects of the sociopolitical environment into the unconscious in manifold ways that affect intrapsychic and intersubjective experience (Hollander, 1991(Hollander, , 1992(Hollander, , 1996a(Hollander, , 1996b(Hollander, , 2000(Hollander, , 2006a(Hollander, , 2006b(Hollander, , 2008. I have been especially interested in individual and group experience of destructiveness and the various ways human beings disavow the threat that results from their aggressivity to protect themselves from paranoid-schizoid anxieties.…”

Traumatic Home: Argentinian Victimhood and the Everyday Moral Comfort of Trauma

“…Since the late nineteenth century, psychoanalytical practice and psychoanalytic thinking are important characteristics in the lives of many urban Argentinians, specifically among victims of the last military dictatorship (Súarez‐Orozco , 369–70; Hollander , 284–85; Puget ; Robben , 345).…”

“…During the junta years, people in Argentina were not supposed to denounce the atrocities that were being committed. The military junta tried to implement a social imposition of silence and isolation (Hollander , 285). It is even said that during the last Argentinian dictatorship, “sharing” became equivalent to “danger” (Puget ).…”