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Affect Anxiety

Summary/Abstract: Grzegorz Niziołek's article concerns the Polish reception of Claude Lanzmann's film Shoah.The central issue is the affective impact of Lanzmann's work, which is far weaker in Poland than it is in the West. Niziołek formulates the thesis that the Polish society's fear of learning historical truth is an anxiety toward the affective aspect of a traumatic event. He believes that a great affective openness to the Polish/Jewish past circa the Holocaust derives from two stances, which form part of the work's structure: the “cathartic stance” (rejecting an aggressive approach toward the Jewish victims of the Holocaust) and the “critical stance” (accepting Poles' shared responsibility for the Holocaust). The methodological basis for his reasoning is PROVIDED by research by Dominick LaCapra and Shoshana Felman. The author also makes reference to the canceled premiere of Oliver Frljić's The Undivine Comedy: Scraps and Paweł Demirski and Monika Strzępka's The Undivine Comedy: I'M GONNA TELL GOD EVERYTHING!

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