In 'The Mark of Cain', Katharina von Kellenbach draws on letters exchanged between clergy and Nazi perpetrators, written notes of prison chaplains, memoirs, sermons and prison publications to illuminate the moral and spiritual struggles of perpetrators after the war.
"Sigmund Freud, in his search for the origins of the sense of guilt in individual life and culture, regularly speaks of "reading a dark trace," thus referring to the Oedipus myth as a myth about the problem of human guilt. In Freud's view, this sense of guilt is a trace, a path,…
Sigmund Freud, in his search for the origins of the sense of guilt in individual life and culture, regularly speaks of ""reading a dark trace"", thus referring to the Oedipus myth as a myth on the problem of human guilt. The sense of guilt is indeed a trace that leads deep into …
La culpabilité est sans doute l'une des émotions les plus difficiles à gérer qui soit. Ce livre fait le tour complet de la question, tout d'abord par une synthèse des approches existantes, puis en proposant une définition novatrice : la culpabilité a pour origine une "coupure co…
This concise and well-written book deals with six important roots of human anguish. It divides the six areas into those primarily affecting the individual and those primarily affecting others around him. Among the former are fear, greed, and guilt. Among the latter are deception…
Emotion can result from interpreting group actions as reflecting on the self due to an association between the two. This text considers the nature of collective guilt, the conditions necessary for it to be experienced, how it can be measured, & how it differs from other group ba…
