When the third is dead: Memory, mourning, and witnessing in the aftermath of the Holocaust

International Journal of Psychoanalysis

Volumn 90, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1341-1357

  Gerson, Samuel ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Absence; Dead mother; Dead third; Genocide; Holocaust; Melancholia; Memory; Mourning; Primo Levi; Third; Trauma; Witness

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CHILD; DENIAL; DEPRESSION; DREAM; GRIEF; HOLOCAUST; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; OBJECT RELATION; PSYCHOANALYSIS; PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOTHERAPY; RECALL; REVIEW; SURVIVOR;

ADULT; CHILD; DENIAL (PSYCHOLOGY); DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DREAMS; FREUDIAN THEORY; GRIEF; HOLOCAUST; HOMICIDE; HUMANS; MENTAL RECALL; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; PSYCHOANALYTIC INTERPRETATION; PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY; PSYCHOANALYTIC THERAPY; SURVIVORS; TRANSFERENCE (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 74549114173     PISSN: 00207578     EISSN: 17458315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-8315.2009.00214.x     Document Type: Review

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