Jed Sekoff, Ph.D. is a psychoanalyst practicing in Berkeley ,
California. His writing has focused on the intersection of psychoanalysis,
memory, and culture (including the films, Frankenstein, Nineteen Nineteen,
and Blue Velvet).

Currently, he is clinical consultant to Survivors International, an organization offering psychotherapeutic evaluation and treatment to survivors of repression
and torture.

Abstract: 'The presence of the Shoah in contemporary Films'

In Paul Celan's 'Death Fugue' he writes of 'a grave in the air' left by
those who 'played with serpants and daydreamed death'. How do we bear
witness to the gaping holes left by evil? How do we remember what may be
too much for memory to bear? The films 'Kissing Bubba' and 'The Dreamer'
will evoke a discussion of the tensions between the power of witness and inadequacy of our means of response. The films will help situate the problem
of a psychoanalytic approach to evil, and of a 'torn mourning' that dares to dream back.
 

  epff@psychoanalysis.org.uk