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PubMed1995

[Rainer Werner Fassbinder's "Garbage, the city and death"-- a German landscape of the soul].

No other recent "art event" has aroused so much public debate in Germany as Fassbinder's play "Garbage, City, Death" (1976). The controversy it sparked on its appearance has still not entirely died down. In a painstaking psychoanalytic interpretation Vogt first shows that the play achieves an artistic representation of the unconscious dilemma besetting the second generation of non-Jewish Germans in their relationship to National Socialism. In Fassbinder's play this dilemma, which is bound up with vicarious guilt feelings, is however only presented and not in any way worked out. The upshot is that all those forms of identification with German traditions that have been repudiated on a conscious level re-enter, as it were by the back door, and attain a new virulence. The author demonstrates that at the heart of the play a mechanism of guilt-refusal is operative that inverts the historical culprit-victim relation and makes the Germans themselves into the real victims. In the second part of his article Vogt is concerned to situate the play and the controversy surrounding it in a broader political context--Bitburg (1985), the "historians' conflict" (1986), Jenninger's speech (1988)--revealing a specific collective psychological inscape in present-day Germany for which, in its profounder well-springs, Fassbinder's play may be legitimately regarded as symptomatic. Fassbinder (born 1945) articulates for his generation aspects of an "ethnic disturbance" (George Devereux) which continues to persist precisely because there is a German past "that refuses to go away" (Ernst Nolte).

Drama↗
PubMed1994

["The Soul-Searchers"--discussion of circulars of the Secret Committee. With a letter by Freud and Rank].

The appearance of Georg Groddeck's novel Der Seelensucher (1921) in the Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag caused a stir among the members of the Secret Committee which, as hitherto unpublished circulars from Committee members testify, then developed into a full-grown controversy. Proceeding from the documents themselves, the author traces the course and the eventual settlement of the difference of opinion over Groddeck's novel. His concern in so doing is not so much to throw light on an episode in the early history of psychoanalysis but rather to take that episode as an instance demonstrating the nature of the discourse mechanisms introduced by Freud to protect the central tenets of his teachings. Bos concludes that these were largely institutional defence mechanisms designed to control the generation of psychoanalytic discourse among the Committee members. In present-day terms, the question arises to what extent psychoanalytic societies and institutions employ such discourse strategies vis-à-vis non-conformists and outsiders.

Freudian Theory↗
PubMed1993

["When the soul is depleted, the body dies". Dying and death on the island Nias/Indonesia].

In our society death and dying are largely displaced from everyday experiences. Since old rites and traditions seem antiquated and new behavioral patterns haven't yet developed, interaction with dying persons is ruled by helplessness and speechlessness. This article describes death and dying on the islands of Nias/Indonesia, where a big celebration is held before someone is dying. Relatives keep close physical contact to the dying person. Rites and Customs finally help the bereaved to structure their time of mourning and to express their grief in a socially accepted way. Thus the adat (custom, tradition) is not only supporting the dying person, but also helps the survivors to cope with their loss.

Adaptation, Psychological↗