1 The Elementary Forms of Denial = 1
Psychological status: conscious or unconscious? = 3
Content: literal, interpretive or implicatory? = 7
Organization: personal, cultural or official? = 9
Time: historical or contemporary? = 12
Agent: victim, perpetrator or observer? = 14
Space and place: your own or elsewhere? = 18
2 Knowing and Not-Knowing: The Psychology of Denial = 21
Everyday denial = 21
The psychoanalysis of denial = 25
Lies and self-deception = 37
Cognitive errors = 42
3 Denial at Work: Mechanisms and Rhetorical Devices = 51
Normalization = 51
Defence mechanisms and cognitive errors = 52
Accounts and rhetorical devices = 58
Collusion and cover-up = 64
Everyday bystanders = 68
4 Accounting for Atrocities: Perpetrators and Officials = 76
Perpetrators: accounts as denials = 77
The discourse of official denial = 101
5 Blocking out the Past: Personal Memories, Public Histories = 117
Prelude: repression = 118
Personal memories, personal past = 120
Personal denials, public histories = 124
Collective denials, public histories = 132
6 Bystander States = 140
Prologue: 'It can't happen to us' = 140
Internal bystanders = 142
External audiences = 160
7 Images of Suffering = 168
Appeasing the media beast = 168
Representation and the starving African child = 178
Enlightenment fatigue = 185
8 Appeals: Outrage into Action = 196
Appeal narrative = 197
Issues = 202
9 Digging up Graves, Opening up Wounds: Acknowledging the Past = 222
Modes of acknowledgement = 227
Acknowledgement and social control = 240
Over-acknowledgement = 244
10 Acknowledgement Now = 249
The meanings of acknowledgement = 251
Telling the truth = 255
Intervention: pro-social behaviour and altruism = 261
Creating more acknowledgement = 266
11 Towards Cultures of Denial? = 278
Intellectual denial = 280
More or less denial? = 287
The photo never lies = 296
Notes = 302
Index 331
Psychological status: conscious or unconscious? = 3
Content: literal, interpretive or implicatory? = 7
Organization: personal, cultural or official? = 9
Time: historical or contemporary? = 12
Agent: victim, perpetrator or observer? = 14
Space and place: your own or elsewhere? = 18
2 Knowing and Not-Knowing: The Psychology of Denial = 21
Everyday denial = 21
The psychoanalysis of denial = 25
Lies and self-deception = 37
Cognitive errors = 42
3 Denial at Work: Mechanisms and Rhetorical Devices = 51
Normalization = 51
Defence mechanisms and cognitive errors = 52
Accounts and rhetorical devices = 58
Collusion and cover-up = 64
Everyday bystanders = 68
4 Accounting for Atrocities: Perpetrators and Officials = 76
Perpetrators: accounts as denials = 77
The discourse of official denial = 101
5 Blocking out the Past: Personal Memories, Public Histories = 117
Prelude: repression = 118
Personal memories, personal past = 120
Personal denials, public histories = 124
Collective denials, public histories = 132
6 Bystander States = 140
Prologue: 'It can't happen to us' = 140
Internal bystanders = 142
External audiences = 160
7 Images of Suffering = 168
Appeasing the media beast = 168
Representation and the starving African child = 178
Enlightenment fatigue = 185
8 Appeals: Outrage into Action = 196
Appeal narrative = 197
Issues = 202
9 Digging up Graves, Opening up Wounds: Acknowledging the Past = 222
Modes of acknowledgement = 227
Acknowledgement and social control = 240
Over-acknowledgement = 244
10 Acknowledgement Now = 249
The meanings of acknowledgement = 251
Telling the truth = 255
Intervention: pro-social behaviour and altruism = 261
Creating more acknowledgement = 266
11 Towards Cultures of Denial? = 278
Intellectual denial = 280
More or less denial? = 287
The photo never lies = 296
Notes = 302
Index 331