Disciplining the Holocaust (SUNY series, Insinuations: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Literature)

Bridging The Gap Between Psychoanalysis And Foucault's Understanding Of Disciplinary Power, This Work Explores The Relationship Between Disciplinarity And Contemporary Ethics Of Scholarship About The Holocaust. Disciplining Traumatic History : Goldhagen's Impropriety -- The Aesthetics Of Restraint : Peter Eisenman's Jewish Solution To Germany's Memorial Question -- Auschwitz After Lyotard -- Working Through The Holocaust? : Toward A Psychoanalysis Of Critical Reflection -- Unspeakable Differences, Obscene Pleasures : The Holocaust As An Object Of Desire. Karyn Ball. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 219-285) And Index. DISCIPLINING THE HOLOCAUST......Page 4 Contents......Page 8 Illustrations......Page 10 Acknowledgments......Page 12 Introduction......Page 18 1. Disciplining Traumatic History: Goldhagen’s “Impropriety”......Page 36 Trauma and the Disciplinary Imaginary......Page 51 2. The Aesthetics of Restraint: Peter Eisenman’s “Jewish” Solution to Germany’s Memorial Question......Page 62 Memorial Culture before and after Reunifi cation:Between Revisionism and Jürgen Habermas’s“Western Consensus”......Page 66 “What have we done to ourselves by doing awaywith the Jews?”: The Memorial and Its Interlocutors......Page 79 Deconstructivist Architecture between Libeskind andEisenman: Toward a “Jewish” Antimemorial Genre?......Page 90 3. “Auschwitz” after Lyotard......Page 112 The Wound of Nihilism......Page 116 Improper Ends......Page 125 Expropriating the We......Page 133 Affective Evidence......Page 142 Survivor Memory and the Limits of Empathy......Page 156 4. “Working through” the Holocaust?Toward a Psychoanalysis of Critical Refl ection......Page 166 Libidinal Reflections......Page 169 Against Catharsis......Page 177 Sadomasochism and the Disciplinary Imaginary......Page 196 5. Unspeakable Differences,Obscene Pleasures: The Holocaust as an Object of Desire......Page 210 The Discipline of Compassion between Testimony and Confession......Page 213 The Holocaust as a Feminist Object of Desire......Page 222 Notes......Page 236 A......Page 304 B......Page 305 D......Page 306 F......Page 308 G......Page 310 H......Page 311 I......Page 313 L......Page 314 M......Page 316 P......Page 317 R......Page 318 T......Page 319 V......Page 320 Z......Page 321 Back Cover......Page 322 DISCIPLINING THE HOLOCAUST 4 Contents 8 Illustrations 10 Acknowledgments 12 Introduction 18 1. Disciplining Traumatic History: Goldhagen’s “Impropriety” 36 Trauma and the Disciplinary Imaginary 51 2. The Aesthetics of Restraint: Peter Eisenman’s “Jewish” Solution to Germany’s Memorial Question 62 Memorial Culture before and after Reunifi cation:Between Revisionism and Jürgen Habermas’s“Western Consensus” 66 “What have we done to ourselves by doing awaywith the Jews?”: The Memorial and Its Interlocutors 79 Deconstructivist Architecture between Libeskind andEisenman: Toward a “Jewish” Antimemorial Genre? 90 3. “Auschwitz” after Lyotard 112 The Wound of Nihilism 116 Improper Ends 125 Expropriating the We 133 Affective Evidence 142 Survivor Memory and the Limits of Empathy 156 4. “Working through” the Holocaust?Toward a Psychoanalysis of Critical Refl ection 166 Libidinal Reflections 169 Against Catharsis 177 Sadomasochism and the Disciplinary Imaginary 196 5. Unspeakable Differences,Obscene Pleasures: The Holocaust as an Object of Desire 210 The Discipline of Compassion between Testimony and Confession 213 The Holocaust as a Feminist Object of Desire 222 Notes 236 Index 304 A 304 B 305 C 306 D 306 E 308 F 308 G 310 H 311 I 313 J 314 K 314 L 314 M 316 N 317 O 317 P 317 Q 318 R 318 S 319 T 319 U 320 V 320 W 321 Y 321 Z 321 Back Cover 322 Disciplining the Holocaust examines critics' efforts to defend a rigorous and morally appropriate image of the Holocaust. Rather than limiting herself to polemics about the "proper" approach to traumatic history, Karyn Ball explores recent trends in intellectual history that govern a contemporary ethics of scholarship about the Holocaust. She examines the scholarly reception of Goldhagen's Hitler's Willing Executioners, the debates culminating in Eisenman's Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin, Lyotard's response to negations of testimony about the gas chambers, psychoanalytically informed frameworks for the critical study of traumatic history, and a conference on feminist approaches to the Holocaust and genocide. Ball's book bridges the gap between psychoanalysis and Foucault's understanding of disciplinary power in order to highlight the social implications of traumatic history.