a Polish case Berlin 11th July 2018 Marzanna Pogorzelska mpogorzelskauniopolepl Polish landscape narration of national pride patriotism superiority regained dignity ID: 799515
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Dealing with the past – a Polish caseBerlin, 11th July 2018
Marzanna Pogorzelska, mpogorzelska@uni.opole.pl
Slide2Polish landscape- narration of national pride, patriotism, superiority, regained dignity- Poland as the place where the Holocaust happened – extreme violence as a common experiencePolish as witnesses, rescuers, perpetrators silence and collective amnesia after the war
Slide3Staying in a childish stage of rejecting guiltB. Engelking: “…childish inability to face the truth, pretending, cheating ourselves. The assumption that we will never be adults, we will never say we did something bad, we will always pretend it is not we. Like a child who is not able to look at her/himself critically … it is building empty and childish identity which does not pose questions, is full of pride and self-satisfaction”
Slide4How we cope with history – main difficulty - facing the fact that we were perpetrators too
Slide5Dealing with the past to avoid shame and guilt (M. Bilewicz)1) selection of situations: concentration on other aspects of history, glorifying heroic past, over-estimating the deeds of the Righteous, avoiding the informer 2) modification of situation: undermining the credibility of the source, censorship and special laws
Slide63) directing the attention: stressing marginal character of the crime and perpetrators – excluding them from national community, competition in victimhood, plot theories
Slide74) cognitive distortions: accepting the facts but stressing outside causes of the crime and diminishing inner causes 5) modulation of expression: suppressing negative emotions (“we finish with pedagogy of shame”)
Slide8SourcesB. Engelking, http://wyborcza.pl/7,75968,22955080,prof-barbara-engelking-dla-wyborczej-pis-ustawa-o-ipn-buduje.htmlM. Bilewicz, (Nie)pamięć zbiorowa Polaków jako skuteczna regulacja emocji, „Teksty Drugie”, 2016 (6), s. 52-67, DOI: 10.1813/td.2016.6.4