Remembering and Responsibility: Commentary on Paper by Gillian Straker

This discussion relates Gillian Straker's work on the South African apartheid archives to Rawlsian social ethics, and to Margalit's ethics of memory, with special emphasis on her "bystander/beneficiary" formulation. From a psychoanalytic point of view, it questions whether Brombe...

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Published in:Psychoanalytic dialogues 2011-11, Vol.21 (6), p.658-663
Main Author: Orange, Donna M.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Archives & records
Ethics
Memory
Morality
Psychoanalysis
Responsibilities
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Summary:This discussion relates Gillian Straker's work on the South African apartheid archives to Rawlsian social ethics, and to Margalit's ethics of memory, with special emphasis on her "bystander/beneficiary" formulation. From a psychoanalytic point of view, it questions whether Brombergian dissociation adequately accounts for the pre-dissociative self-loss described by some of the archive participants. Returning to ethics, it invokes Margalit's concept of the moral witness.
ISSN:1048-1885
1940-9222
DOI:10.1080/10481885.2011.629561