Zeul M, Gimbernat J A
Psyche (Stuttg). 1993 May;47(5):464-77.
Taking a lead from Alexander and Margarete Mitscherlich's psychogram of post-war German society in The Inability to Mourn and Heinz Kohut's remarks on a theory of narcissism, the authors interpret the over-hasty reunification process and the liquidation of the GDR as an attempt to remedy the precarious nature of the collective narcissistic equilibrium. As in the post-war period, when concern with the immediate past was stifled by "reconstruction" and the "economic miracle", so the advent of "deutschmark nationalism" after 1989/90 was marked by the central role played by money. In the emotional cathexis centering around money the authors identify a collective tendency to restore a lost self-object and revive an archaic megalo-self that was thought to have been abandoned for good with the downfall of Hitler.
作者借鉴了亚历山大和玛格丽特·米歇利希在《无法哀悼》中对战后德国社会的心理剖析图，以及海因茨·科胡特关于自恋理论的论述，将两德统一进程过于仓促和民主德国的清算解读为试图修复集体自恋平衡的不稳定状态。如同战后时期，对刚过去的那段历史的关注被“重建”和“经济奇迹”所压抑一样，1989/90年后“德国马克民族主义”的出现以货币所起的核心作用为标志。在围绕货币的情感投入中，作者发现了一种集体倾向，即恢复一个失去的自我客体，并重振一个古老的自大自我，人们认为这个自大自我在希特勒倒台后就被永远抛弃了。
