Cadaverland: Inventing a Pathology of Catastrophe for Holocaust Survival [The Limits of Medical Knowledge and Historical Memory in France]

Contents

Acknowledgments xi Abbreviations xvii Introduction my french “jewish question” 1 Writing History/Inventing History? A Still Warm Corpse Stücke/ Figüren/Rhetoric The Limits of Knowledge and Memory Figure 1 the real 14 Who Knew What and When Did They Know It? The French Resistance and the “Jewish Question” Military Planning for the Liberation of the Camps and Prisoner Repatriation The Liberation of the Western Camps Medical Liberation Allied dp Policies The Nazi A-Bomb: The Continuing Jewish Problem Figure 2 condensation 55 The Return The Lutetia Hotel War Crimes Forensics, 1945–1947 From Testimony to Medical Discourse, 1945–1948 The Psychology of Captivity, 1945–1946 Medical Dissertations on Concentration Camps and Deportee Pathology, 1941–1946 A Medical Field in Search of Itself, 1945–1953 C o n t e n ts Figure 3 displacement 90 The Pathology of Catastrophe The Somatologists, 1945–1948 The “Halakhists,” 1936–1948 International Congresses on the Pathology of Deportation and Related Issues, 1946–1952 The fir Medical and Scientific Congresses, 1954–1981 Minkowski: Psychopathology in Psychiatry and Holocaust Research, 1952–1982 The Scandinavian School of kz Syndrome, 1952–1980 Polish Perspectives on kz Syndrome, 1945–1961 The Israeli Holocaust Problem and Early Research, 1948–1969 Figure 4 inversion 144 The Failure of “Liberation Psychiatry,” 1944–1947 The Impossible Profession: Aspects of French Psychoanalytic History, 1926–1980 Niederland, Krystal, and the Transformation of Concentration Camp Syndrome, 1963–1988 Vicissitudes of the Figure of the Survivor, 1976–2005 Figure 5 dilemma 175 Trauma and Traumato-Culture, 1945–1990 Memory, Remembering, Commemoration, and Witnessing, 1949–2004 Writing and Rewriting the Holocaust, 1945–? Figure 6 conclusion: prosthesis 201 Notes 209 Bibliography 231 Index 263 ...