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THE INABILITY TO MOURN: DEFICIENCIES IN POSTWAR LITERATURE And if the burthen of Isaac were sufficient for an holocaust, a man may carry his owne pyre. SIR THOMAS BROWNE, HYDRIOTAPHIA. URNE-BURIAL; OR, A BRIEF DISCOURSE OF THE SEPULCHRALL URNES LATELY FOUND IN NORFOLK (LONDON, 1658) Alexander and Margarete Mitscherlich’s theory of “the inability to mourn,” first formulated in 1967, has since proved—although statistically this can hardly be verified—to be one of the clearest explanations given for the mental disposition of postwar society in West Germany.1 The absence of “reactions of mourning after a national catastrophe of vast extent,” the “striking paralysis of feeling which was the response to the mountains of corpses in the concentration camps, the disappearance of the German armies into imprisonment, the news of the murder of millions of Jews, Poles and Russians, and political opponents from the ranks of the German people themselves,” left negative impressions on the internal life of the new society, with consequences that can be properly understood only now, seen in the more distant retrospect of, say, the films of Fassbinder and Kluge.
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