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Abstract: September 1, 1995. Sieg Maandag sits at a long wooden dining table under the tall ceiling of his family's apartment on the Pieter de Hoochstraat, near the Museumplein in Amsterdam. He tells his story to Roos Elkerbout, an interviewer for the University of Southern California Shoah Foundation archives. Smiling, he answers questions about his early childhood in Amsterdam. He makes small jokes, playing with words as he reminisces about growing up. But he also indicates danger from the start, as he remembers a scary scene from his early life which made him scream for his mother.Sieg's face brightens again as he tells the interviewer how his first teacher taught the class to behave. But his voice drops as he starts to ... Read More PubDate: 2023-04-03T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: According to Sarah Gendron, following Terrence Des Pres's notion of "Holocaust etiquette," there are two forms of art that government-sponsored museums and memorials feel to be "safe" in representing the Holocaust: pure abstraction or direct, realist representation. The former is permissible since, with its "perceived capacity to sidestep misrepresentation," it "does not seek to portray the event or those involved in a figural way" (Gendron, 2009, p. 416); the latter is acceptable for precisely the opposite reason, because they "present themselves as re-presentations, portraying moments 'as they were' without intervention, manipulation, or interpretation." The artist appears to bear witness to the event, "providing ... Read More PubDate: 2023-04-03T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: It almost doesn't matter what you paint. It is what takes place during the act of painting that matters.Simon describes his father being very open to his children's opinions. "Wait," his father would say. "Look. Really look. Tell me. What do you see'" Sarah told a story about how a huge crowd followed her and her father as they made their way around a Dali exhibit."In this world full of symbols," Sieg wrote, "seeing and doing go hand in hand. Seeing what the moment has to say and giving the moment form by the deed."For the artist Sieg Maandag, Audrey Flack's (1991) words are apt: it doesn't matter what he paints, what counts is the act of painting, the seeing and the doing. What is arresting about Sieg's work as it ... Read More PubDate: 2023-04-03T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Internationally the image of the persecution of the Jews in the Netherlands has been stamped by the story of Anne Frank. The end of that story clearly is not a happy one, with her pitiful death in Bergen-Belsen, but her story nevertheless has regularly functioned as a soft-focus lens, suggesting a less horrible history and shedding a more favorable light on the attitude of the non-Jewish population—think of the courageous Miep Gies and the other helpers of the secret Annex—than the facts would justify. Those facts are that the percentage of deported Jews was higher in the Netherlands than in any other occupied country in Western Europe: 75%.Historians have pointed out multiple causes of this shockingly high ... Read More PubDate: 2023-04-03T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: "In penetrating the ugliness of dark colors, an unseen beauty emerges. Painting acts as a support for the climb upwards.""We, here in this wretchedness, no less. What is beauty, what is poetry'"The prolific Dutch Jewish painter and ceramicist Sieg Maandag was liberated, at the age of seven, from the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, a moment captured in a well-known image by Magnum photographer George Rodger (Bernard & Marlow, 1999, pp. 136–137; Sollors, 2014, pp. 57–84). Maandag was among the few surviving orphaned children of Amsterdam's so-called Diamond group of prisoners, who were temporarily exempted from deportation because German authorities deemed them "valuable" for potential diamond industry-related work ... Read More PubDate: 2023-04-03T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: It has long been observed that trauma and loss are potent impetuses to the making of art (Klein, 1929; Laub & Modell, 1995; Tutter & Wurmser, 2015). In particular, considerations of the visual art of Holocaust survivors are at the heart of current psychoanalytic theorizing around the uses of creativity in response to devastating trauma: from the simple expression and communication, via visual representation, of that which cannot be otherwise articulated, thought about, or symbolized, to the reparation or even mastery of such experiences though aesthetic transformation (Ornstein, 2006, 2015; Dreifuss-Kattan, 2016). Thanks to Dawn Skorczewski and Karen Maandag-Ralph (2020), who recognized the significance of the art ... Read More PubDate: 2023-04-03T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: The title quote from 18-year-old Beatrix Potter's journal captures in its amusingly civilized description of wild beasts something of her complex relationship with animals. Central to the effect of Potter's tales is her talent at creating fluidity in the boundary between human and animal identities, a talent that flowed from her developmental experience of several jolts to her own identity while her deep connection to animals remained a lifelong constant.Previous writers have demonstrated that Potter experienced and expressed in her tales many painful conflicts (Grinstein, 1995; Lane, 1946; Lear, 2007; Tuerk, 2020; Tutter, 2014) These aspects of her life and art can be understood within what Loewald (1951, 1952) ... Read More PubDate: 2023-04-03T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: While leisurely reading the novel Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead,1 written by the 2018 Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk, I was struck by realizing how incredibly the main character in the novel fits the psychological profile of high-functioning autism. I was excited to discover how this psychological prism may marvelously account for the intricate complexities and nuances of this extraordinary and seemingly incomprehensible character, providing us with a coherent conceptual framework for understanding this fascinating piece of literature.Autism is a common neurodevelopmental syndrome characterized by substantial cognitive, emotional, perceptual, and sensual characteristics. The main characteristics of ... Read More PubDate: 2023-04-03T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: I sometimes think there is almost an occupational neurosis of analysts, because so much time is spent in finding out the various mistakes which are made—our faults, sins, crimes and so forth—that we forget it is a very unimportant part of the whole story. We no doubt want to know what we are bad at—it is quite useful to know that—but the really important thing to know is what part of it we are any good at.Since he is a human being there is no shortage of human frailty available for ammunition, the symmetrical approach being adulation and abuse.In the final decade of his life, Wilfred Bion (1897–1979) gave public lectures and psychoanalytic seminars in Latin America, Europe, and the United States. In the course of ... Read More PubDate: 2023-04-03T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Psychoanalytic metapsychology has changed in the past decades from an emphasis on drives as the source of intrapsychic organization, energy, and movement. The nexus of psychoanalytic theory has evolved from the intrapsychic to an interpersonal, intersubjective, and relational focus. With the evolution of intersubjective psychoanalysis, the bi-personal field of the analytic pair is now seen as the vehicle of intrapsychic growth. The relational field further evolved as the locus for development of the ego. An appreciation of the social milieu and its effect on the individual led to an understanding of the long arm of trauma on development. Relational psychoanalysis holds that one sequela of trauma is dissociation ... Read More PubDate: 2023-04-03T00:00:00-05:00
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