Murderous Fantasies

Violence, Memory, and Selfhood in Germany

Datos Bibliográficos

ID5082783
AutoresUli Linke (autor de correspondencia)
Año1995
Número64
Páginas37
Fecha de publicación1995-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaNew German Critique (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0094-033X • E-ISSN: 1558-1462
EditorialJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/488463
OpenAlexW2319869416
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas24

The nature of the link between discourse and power has long been a matter of intense interest to social theorists. Despite different terminological approaches, current discourse theorists generally agree that, in contrast to traditional positivist and Marxist models, reality is always and fundamentally a discursively produced social construction. And, while a number of contrasting reality constructions may coexist at any given historical moment and in every society, particular discourses emerge as dominant to provide a deeply saturating sense of reality for most people.1 Such prevailing discourses are unlikely to be the production of a single group or to serve one set of hegemonic interests. My field site is a united Germany, where I investigate fantasies of violence and Holocaust memories as arenas of cultural reproduction. My research prompted a re-examination of the place of violence in

Art · Psychoanalysis · Communism, Protests, Social Movements · European history and politics · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Psychology