Book Review: The Power of Witnessing: Reflections, Reverberations, and Traces of the Holocaust. Trauma, Psychoanalysis and the Living Mind. (2012) Ed’s Nancy R. Goodman and Marilyn B. Meyers. Routledge.
The editors of this book caution the reader, when one editor (M.M.) writes that while she was working on this book, she suffered nightmares. She and her coeditor discuss their associations to these nightmares and consider this “good psychic work.” Reader be warned: some of the stories are nightmarish. And this book embraces much — accounts by Holocaust survivors, child survivors, or their relatives; artistic accounts of the Holocaust and other subsequent terrible traumas such as 9/11. As if this were not enough, the book is subtitled and hence addressed to a psychoanalytic audience. Continue reading Review of the Power of Witnessing, Reviewed By Nathan Szajnberg