Psychoanalysis, history and historical studies : a systematic introduction / Jürgen Straub -- Three memory anchors : affect, symbol, trauma / Alaida Assmann -- Origin and ritualisation of historical awareness : a group analytic view and an ethnohermeneutic case reconstruction / Hans Bosse -- Identity, overvaluation and re-presentating forgetting / Hinderk M. Emrich -- Transgenerational trauma, identification and historical consciousness / Werner Bohleber -- On the myth of objective research after Auschwitz : unconscious entanglements with the national socialist past in the investigation of long-term psychosocial consequences of the Shoah in the Federal Republic of Germany / Kurt Grunberg -- Understanding transgenerational transmission : the burden of history in families of Jewish victims and their national socialist perpetrators / Jürgen Straub -- On social and psychological foundations of anti-semitism / Karola Brede -- From religious fantasies of omnipotence to scientific myths of emancipation : Freud and the dialectics of psychohistory / Jose Brunner -- Working towards a discourse of shame : (working with shame discourse)--a psychoanalytical perspective on postwar German literary criticism / Irmgard Wagner.