Mending the Skin of Memory
Ethics and history in contemporary narratives
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12592201 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tim Woods (0000-0002-1633-8351, University of Wales, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 339-348 |
| Publication date | 1998-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Rethinking History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1364-2529 • E-ISSN: 1470-1154 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13642529809408970 |
| OpenAlex | W1964366816 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 8 |
The skin covering the memory of Auschwitz is tough. Sometimes, however, it bursts, and gives back its contents. In a dream, the will is powerless. And in these dreams, there I see myself again, me, yes me, just as I know I was: scarcely able to stand... pierced with cold, filthy, gaunt, and the pain is unbearable, so exactly the pain I suffered there, that I feel it again physically, I feel it again through my whole body, which becomes a block of pain, and I feel death seizing me, I feel myself die. Fortunately, in my anguish, I cry out. The cry awakens me, and I emerge from the nightmare, exhausted. It takes days for everything to return to normal, for memory to be ‘refilled” and for the skin of memory to mend itself. I become myself again, the one you know, who can speak to you of Auschwitz without showing any sign of distress or emotion. (Delbo 1985: 13–14)
Aesthetics · Anguish · Art · Dream · Epistemology · Literature · Narrative · Nightmare · Psychoanalysis · Psychotherapist · Sign (mathematics · History · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Philosophy · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,17 |
| Citation span | 2003 - 2007 (5) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |