Group Experiment was the first penetrating postwar analysis of Germans’ inability to mourn

Evidence

The substitution of personal, living experience for the methodical gathering and organization of material by different people made the wealth of the material not only clearer but at the same time more obscure. A vast academic machinery, although justified by its pioneering aims, obtruded like a forbidding barrier between the potential audience and a study which could fairly be described as the first, and in the 1950s the most penetrating, analysis of the post-Hitler German inability to mourn. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2037

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘inability to mourn’ concept resonates with the reader’s critical theory background and pieces on how societies process trauma; connects to the sacrificial/ritual themes in the ‘On Sacrifice’ essay about how societies handle loss. — connects to: The Frankfurt group pioneered Germany’s group discussion technique for social research — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1872; A constructed shared victimhood unified diverse displaced German groups. — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 184; Postwar German spiritual seeking responded to metaphysical emptiness, not present chaos (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• The Frankfurt group pioneered Germany’s group discussion technique for social research #expands (0.75) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1872