ABSTRACT
The scenic-narrative microanalytic approach, presented by Andreas Hamburger, applies a relational analysis to a severely trauma-fragmented narrative by demonstrating how transference, countertransference, and parapraxes are in minute-to-minute dialog with each other in order to fill the traumatic gaps of what had not been symbolized, and therefore unnarrated. Dr Johanna Bodenstab demonstrates the psychoanalytic listening to a mother-daughter interaction in an extremely traumatic moment-the joint witnessing of the unexpected murder of a newborn baby. The narrative evolves and is structured and layered. Feelings are experienced and expressed. The psychoanalytic interpretation of the formidable parapraxis that occurs in it, allows for the elucidation of the impact the witnessed event had on the mother-daughter relationship and on each of their self representations. Sonja Knopp's chapter illustrates how the traumatic imprint that permeates Holocaust testimony informs history through its content, through its form, and through the corporeal information it contains-far exceeding what the written document can convey.
