"Il trauma della Shoah nella costruzione dell'identità europea"

Abstract. The experience of the survivor has two distinct and correlated phases: the initial trauma with its devastating, destructive effects on the personality on the one hand, and the possibly lifelong consequences on the other, which require a unique investment of resources to avoid succumbing to circumstances. In extreme situations we can allow ourselves to be destroyed by an experience, or we can repress it and deny it has any lasting consequences. But it is also possible to engage a lifelong battle to preserve awareness of it and integrate it in the memory. The most destructive of solutions is to conclude that reintegration of the personality is out of the question, or that there is no point, or both. In these cases the survivor perceives his life to be fragmented. The preliminary condition for renewal of integration is first to recognize the seriousness of the trauma and its nature. The problem arises when the break between the past and the present becomes a radical o...

L'a di due distinti momenti fra loro correlati: il trauma iniziale con i suoi effetti devastanti e distruttivi sulla personalità da un lato, le conseguenze di lungo periodo dall'altro, che richiedono uun investimento unico di risorse psicologiche per non soccombere. In situazioni limite si può andare incontro a un collasso totale, oppure mettere in atto meccanismo di rimozione e di diniego Ma si può anche lottare per consevare la consapevolezza e integrare l'esperienza nella memoria.