By writing on what they had to undergo, the victims and witnesses of the Holocaust undergo a catharsis- a purgation of the negative emotions which make them `fixated' to the past. This catharsis can be seen in Viktor Frankl's book Man's Search for Meaning as well as in Paul Celan's ...
“The mystical” as an expression, in the sense I use it here, stems from Angela Ales Bello who proposed it as a translation of the German term “Mystik.” The mystical is not to be confused with mysticism, because the meaning of the latter is more ambiguous than that of the former. ...
to be told and retold until their meaning for our times is accepted. It is not a book of direct insight into the meaning of the extermination camps, but in the fate of the author lies much of its significance. Least of all, despite the author's claim, is it the book of a physician...