The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe and Its Associations with Vicarious Trauma

Mark Callaghan

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The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe and Its Associations with Vicarious Trauma

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Page Range:: 21–40

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004374843_003

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This chapter concentrates on the issue of creating a unitary memory for a country’s heinous past and the complexities of vicarious trauma for both artists and the public alike. As the medical definition of trauma refers not to the injury inflicted but to the blow that inflicted it, not to the state of mind that ensues but to the event that provoked it, my research questions whether designs for the Berlin Holocaust Memorial Competition were more concerned with the blow and the event rather than the injury itself. I contend that Peter Eisenman’s winning design does not represent the injury but instead aims to cause the visitor to feel disorientated and therefore reflects the nature of death in the Final Solution–the blow and the event. According to Cathy Caruth traumatic events return to us even though we are vicarious witnesses because trauma itself cannot be fully understood, despite so many artistic attempts to do so. We should therefore consider the effects of traumarelated art, as we may appreciate why Eisenman’s design was favoured in the face of so many compelling proposals. Along with analysing Eisenman’s winning blueprint, this chapter also examines vicarious trauma in relation to two further submissions for the competition, both leading contenders for selection: Renata Stih and Frieder Schnock’s Bus Stop! and Daniel Libeskind’s Stone Breath. Through perusal of these designs we can see further support for the argument that postreunification Germany was drawn to proposals that expressed their own trauma, a vicarious one.

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Trauma and Meaning Making

丛编： At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries, 卷： 138

ISBN:: 9789004374843

出版社:: Brill

印刷出版日期:: 23 Sep 2016

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  - Psychology
- Social Sciences
  - Cultural Studies

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