Dal racconto all’ascolto rispettoso. La testimonianza di Luciana Nissim Momigliano

More than fifty testimonials on the deportation to a death camp were produced in Italy between 1945 and 1947, only few of which belong to the narrative genre. Seven of these were made by Jewish-Italian writers: Lazzaro Levi, Primo Levi, Giuliana Tedeschi, Liana Millu, Luciana Nissim, Frida Misul e Alba Valech Capozzi. Millu and Tedeschi started writing in the immediate afterwar period and rewrote their testimonials many years later. By contrast, Luciana Nissim never harked back to her death camp experience in her psychoanalytic writings. Passing from testimonials to an ‘analytical narrative’, Nissim – both a doctor and a psychoanalist – elaborated a reflexion which engages with the role of the psychoanalyst and, more particularly, with listening modalities. Drawing on Henry Greenspan’s multiple interview method, the three versions of Nissim’s testimonial Ricordi della casa dei morti (preserved in the Centro Bibliografico dell’Unione delle Comunità Ebraiche Italiane in Rome) are compared with the version edited by Ramella (1946), her psychoanalytic writings and the various interviews she gave after Primo Levi’s death. The role of the consecutive texts and their memorial or narrative peculiarity are analysed through a diachronic reading of Nissim’s narrative and scientific writings, carried out on the basis of an understanding of memory and trauma as dynamic cognitive and process.

Jaar van publicatie:2019

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