Reviews for Psychoanalytic reflections on the holocaust

The average rating for Psychoanalytic reflections on the holocaust based on 2 reviews is 2 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2011-11-14 00:00:00 Amy Dao The Holocaust Testimonies was a interesting book but not for the ones who like a more intense book rather than a calm and sort of frightening book upon the Holocaust. This Book is about the past experiences of the people who were sent to the special camps. Their was many main people who played their part in the book, with that being said their was truly no main character besides the Nazi's and how cruel they were to others and the actions that they posed. The plot started out as a place in which people would start to express how they felt about the Holocaust and later on they showed more emotional connections to the friends and family's that they have lost. The style of the book is separated into 5 parts most of the parts are dealing with the memory of the victims of the Holocaust. The delivery of the stories are sadly not the way it should be explained, for me it sounded as if it was a TV interview in which is just not my style while for some others might enjoy this, reasoning to why I rated this a 1 Out of 5. I'd say the author did a good job on receiving the information but I feel it wasn't expressed enough. I'd say this because it was as if just written with a non-excited voice for me but yet again others might have a different opinion on my thought's. I put the rating for this book as a 1/5 because I find it in my opinion boring and dull because I have read another Holocaust book before this one. And I found the first one more interesting because it told the life of a victim who explained in detail of what happened. And I see this book as an importance though because it does tell of what occurred and the memories of the victims and how they felt during that period and will look back and try to not make the same mistakes as they have done in that time period and not let human beings go through that again.

Review # 2 was written on 2008-02-06 00:00:00 Tom Fleming Langer, who has observed over 300 hours of Holocaust testimony (I can't even begin to imagine), examines the memories of Holocaust survivors with five specific categories. Although he provides more than enough actual testimony his purpose is in trying to explain how that particular trauma has affected memory. So, this isn't really a history book, but it's not a psychological exploration either. Langer, an English professor, uses literary analysis and philosophical exploration to examine the memories. For me, the memory categories were useful, although at times contrived, and, not being up a literary critic or philosopher myself, felt a little lost in the passages that continually referred to Nietzche and Proust. However, his examination of the memories is extremely powerful and very painful. In all my reading on the Holocaust, I can't say that I have ever been so personally moved (and distraught). From an historical perspective, I am reminded of the pitfalls, but also the immense value, or using oral testimony in research.