Memory and Identity. from Zoé to Bíos

Deutsche Akademie für Psychoanalyse (DAP) e.V.
World Association for Dynamic Psychiatry WADP Inc. Bern

16th World Congress of the World Association for Dynamic Psychiatry

and

XXIX. International Symposium of the German Academy of Psychoanalysis

The Interpersonal Dynamics of Identity
Research, Pathology and Treatment

March 21st - 25th 2011
Psychiatric Hospital of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität 
Nussbaumstraße 7, 80336 Munich

WADP is affiliate of the World Psychiatric Association WPA

Vortrag
Meinhart Horst / Heidelberg
22.03.2011
Memory and Identity
From zoé to bíos
(engl./dt.)
„When I visited the Museum at AUSCHWITZ, I stood in front of the display cases. What I saw there were images from contemporary art …. Looking at the exhibits of suitcases, prosthetics, children’s toys, I didn’t feel frigthened.“ (Lichtenstein, Jaquelin 1997) What we will be asking today will thus take up were Jaquelin Lichtenstein left off: did the Nazi terror loose the war but, in the end, win the peace? (Virilio, Paul 2004, p. 28)
“Als ich das Museum in Auschwitz besuchte, stand ich vor den Ausstellungsstücken. Was ich sah, waren Bilder zeitgenössischer Kunst. Beim Anblick der Koffer, Prothesen, von Kinderspielzeug war ich nicht erschrocken.”   “Mit unserer Frage: Haben die Nazis den Krieg verloren, aber am Ende den Frieden gewonnen?” schließen wir an Jaquelin Lichtenstein an.
Concentration camps accompanied me since my early childhood in form of a small booklet with the title „The tattoo issue“[1] lying around in our appartement, said to be the doctoral thesis of my father, which he had written in the concentration camp Buchenwald, where he had been one of the camp doctors from Nov.1939 to Jan.1941[2].
Konzentrationslager haben mich seit meiner frühen Kindheit in Form einer Broschüre begleitet, die in unserer Wohnung herumlag. Sie hatte den Titel: Ein Beitrag zur Tätowierungsfrage. Es hieß, es sei die Doktorarbeit meines Vaters, der sie im KZ Buchenwald...