Danielian Jack
American Institute for Psychoanalysis of the Karen Horney Psychoanalytic Center, USA.
Am J Psychoanal. 2010 Sep;70(3):245-64. doi: 10.1057/ajp.2010.12.
This paper addresses how crimes of genocide go beyond a need for naked power, economic aggrandizement, or territorial conquest. Such crimes involve psychogenic and psychodynamic underpinnings that can be terrifying to contemplate. Yet their psychological study is essential. The Armenian genocide has been taken as a point of reference. Because the Armenian genocide has resulted in nearly a century-long effort of perpetrator denial, it can provide an important case study of how long-standing trauma and denial reinforce each other and illuminate each other. As a result, this genocide has aptly been called the "secret genocide," the "unremembered genocide," and a "crime without a name." The author holds that genocidal trauma (and trauma in general) is contagious and the contagion is likely to be insidious. All who come in contact with it can come away marked, including victim, victim families and progeny, observers, advocates, researchers, and yes, perpetrators.
本文探讨了种族灭绝罪行如何超越对赤裸裸的权力、经济扩张或领土征服的需求。此类罪行涉及心理成因和心理动力学基础，令人细思极恐。然而，对其进行心理学研究至关重要。亚美尼亚种族灭绝事件被用作参考点。由于亚美尼亚种族灭绝导致犯罪者近一个世纪以来一直否认这一事件，它可以提供一个重要的案例研究，说明长期的创伤和否认如何相互强化、相互阐明。因此，这场种族灭绝被恰当地称为“秘密种族灭绝”“被遗忘的种族灭绝”和“无名罪行”。作者认为，种族灭绝创伤（以及一般意义上的创伤）具有传染性，而且这种传染可能很隐匿。所有接触到它的人都会受到影响，包括受害者、受害者家属及其后代、观察者、倡导者、研究人员，当然还有犯罪者。
