The Sociocultural Turn in Psychology by Suzanne Kirschner Jack Martin

Author:Suzanne Kirschner, Jack Martin [Suzanne Kirschner, Jack Martin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780231148399
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Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2010-06-01T00:00:00+00:00

Wilkomirski did not one day decide to carefully construct a character and devise a story with which to deceive the world. His present-day identity arose, rather, over the course of four decades, unplanned and improvised, with new experiences and necessities constantly woven into it and contradictions arising from a lack of any plan smoothed over, though over time with less and less success. (2001:269)

As Maechler explains,

The genesis of [Wilkomirski’s] stories is bound up with traumatic experiences which . . . we may assume had scarcely found their way into his autobiographical knowledge. The experiences from his early years have the dimensions of a cumulative trauma that eludes all understanding and yet is all the more determinative since it occurred during the phase when the child was developing an ability to speak, to think symbolically, and, finally, to shape experiences into stories. Fragments is the attempt of the adult Bruno Grosjean to assemble elements taken from humanity’s remembrance of the Shoah in order to find a means of expressing experiences that were not verbally retrievable either when they occurred or later, and which for that very reason cried out for a narrative that would give them meaning. (p. 269)

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