The Last of the Unjust
Test case of a screen confession
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8973007 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dana Amir (0000-0002-1574-5844, University of Haifa, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 101 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 597-610 |
| Publication date | 2019-12-06 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The International Journal of Psychoanalysis (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-7578 • E-ISSN: 1745-8315 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00207578.2019.1646101 |
| PMID | 33945703 |
| OpenAlex | W2992104666 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 13 |
An analysis of the transcripts of interviews by Claude Lanzmann with Benjamin Murmelstein in the documentary The Last of the Unjust , dealing with Jewish collaboration with the Nazis in World War II, reveals the speaker producing a "screen confession," an ambiguous text that dissociates between explicit and implicit contents, and while presenting an eloquent and coherent narrative actually rewrites emotional, maybe even factual, history. Unlike Freud's "screen memory," which refers to the way in which a marginal memory covers another emotionally charged one which cannot be remembered, the notion of screen confession refers not to memory itself but to how it is construed in language. Omitted from this kind of confession are not the concrete facts, but their meaning. Distortion does not attach to the factual details but interferes with the syntax, which plays havoc with the original utterance, taking away its meaning even if its components are accurate and correct
Art · Confession (law · German · Linguistics · Literature · Meaning (existential · Narrative · Nazism · Psychoanalysis · Syntax · Utterance · History · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Narrative Theory and Analysis · Philosophy · Psychology · Rhetoric and Communication Studies
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2023 (4) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |