the absence of a bodily identity with her mother, Karpf, like Sethe, risks losing her sense of herself
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Memory is transmitted to be repeated and reenacted, not to be worked through
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Anne Karpf’s relationship to her mother becomes incorporative and appropriative—more a form of “transposition” than identification.
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divest myself of my skin, slip out of it
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enumerates the bodily symptoms through which she experiences her mother’s sense memories of the camps
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Within the intimate familial space of mother/daughter transmission, however, postmemory always risks sliding into rememory, traumatic reenactment, and repetition.
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the disavowal of this bodily mirroring.
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postgeneration’s ambivalent wish to locate parental trauma in a precise spot
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the necessity and the impossibility of receiving the parents’ bodily experience of trauma
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The mark of untranslatability becomes the untranslatability of the mark