The issue of mourning is one of the core questions of psychoanalytic theory and I find its exploration via literary texts a fascinating prism through which to examine this foundational issue.
Polish-born Holocaust survivor Meyer Hack shows his prisoner number tattooed on his arm during a news conference at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem June 15, 2009.(photo credit: REUTERS)ByKEREN SHAFIRUpdated: