The Forbidden Room An overview of analytical work on complexes relating to the Nazi era

In Germany today, a major collective complex bas arisen, related to the Nazi era and the acts of cruelty perpetrated at that time in the recent past. It is reasonable to expect current German psychoanalytic research to contribute to an awareness of this complex, which seems to be cultural in origin. However, analytic treatment of the complex depends on several different factors, not least the personality of the analyst himself who also has his own history and an awareness (or lack thereof) that he too bas been affected. This article discusses the range of problems involved in the treatment of this complex. In spite of the courageous efforts of a small minority of practitioners and authors, the complex has remained a taboo subject, in analytic circles as well as in the mind of the general public.