Psychodynamic Theories of the ‘Survivor Synrdome’

Koranyi, Erwin K.

doi:10.1177/070674376901400210

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“…Early research on Holocaust survivors, performed mostly by clinical psychiatrists, tended to emphasize the traumatic impact of concentration camp experience on the psychic life of survivors (Chodoff, 1974;Koranyi, 1969). Attempting to procure compensation for survivors from the West German government, psychiatrists argued that the extreme circumstances of the war (including camp experience, forced labor, starvation, humiliation and the loss of friends, family, and community) were sufficient to overcome the defense mechanisms of healthy individuals and cause the gross display of symptoms (Lederer, 1965;Marcus & Rosenberg, 1988).…”

Section: Survivors In Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

Collected Stories in the Life Narratives of Holocaust Survivors

Schiff

Noy²,

Cohler³

2001

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This research investigates the use of stories that are found through vicarious experience and told in a life narrative in order to communicate the meaning of the personal past. Through the interpretation of the life narratives of Holocaust survivors, we argue that stories outside of direct experience, collected stories, form the background of personal narratives. Collected stories are pieces of social interaction and context that are integrated in our presentation of the past, and self understanding, because they are personally relevant to us and congruent with the situation of telling. These stories have the potential to lose the indications that they are outside of direct experience and become indistinguishable from other stories that draw upon direct experience. Collected stories serve to situate our stories of the past and identity within a cultural horizon of sense and meaning.As social scientists, we know that words have multiple meanings. Words are the voice of a person as well as the voice of a social group living in a particular historical epoch and culture. The articulation of a personal history and life world, so called life narratives or life stories, can be meaningfully approached from the perspective of the person or the social group. Looking at the life of a single individual, one can understand the significance of words as part of a personal biography that culminates in the present and extends back in time to early childhood

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Section: Survivors In Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%