Karyn Ball is Associate Professor of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta and the editor of Traumatizing Theory: The Cultural Politics of Affect In and Beyond Psychoanalysis.

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Introduction

1. Disciplining Traumatic History: Goldhagen's "Impropriety
Goldhagen's Impropriety . Trauma and the Disciplinary Imaginary

2. The Aesthetics of Restraint: Peter Eisenman's "Jewish" Solution to Germany's Memorial Question
Memorial Culture before and after Reunification: Between Revisionism and Jürgen Habermas's "Western Consensus" . "What have we done to ourselves by doing away with the Jews?": The Memorial and Its Interlocutors . Deconstructivist Architecture between Libeskind and Eisenman: Toward a "Jewish" Antimemorial Genre?

3. "Auschwitz" after Lyotard
The Wound of Nihilism . Improper Ends . Expropriating the We . Affective Evidence . Survivor Memory and the Limits of Empathy

4. "Working through" the Holocaust? Toward a Psychoanalysis of Critical Reflection
Libidinal Reflections . Against Catharsis . Sadomasochism and the Disciplinary Imaginary

5. Unspeakable Differences, Obscene Pleasures: The Holocaust as an Object of Desire
The Discipline of Compassion between Testimony and Confession . The Holocaust as a Feminist Object of Desire

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