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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Acknowledgement I would like to acknowledge the AHRC for supporting my research. Notes 1 Jacques Lacan, ‘Preface to the English-Language Edition’ (1976) of The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psycho-Analysis, trans. Alan Sheridan (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1977), pp. vii–ix, p.ix. 1 For more on Riley's notion of autoventriloquy see ‘“A voice without a mouth”: Inner Speech’, The Force of Language with Jean-Jacques Lecercle (Hampshire: Palgrave McMillan, 2004); for more on ironic recuperation see ‘Echo, Irony and the Political’, The Words of Selves (Stanford, California: Stanford UP, 2000); for more on difficulties of naming see ‘“The Wounded Fall in the Direction of Their Wound”’, The Words of Selves (Stanford, California: Stanford UP, 2000). 1 Paul Gilroy, After Empire (London: Routledge, 2004), p. 95. 2 Istvan Deak (ed.), The Politics of Retribution in Europe: World War II and its Aftermath (New Jersey: Princeton Universtiy Press, 2000), p. 293. 3 Jan-Werner Müller (ed.) Memory and Power in Post-War Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), p. 19. 4 My colleague David Cesarani has produced a major study, Eichmann: his life and crimes (London: Heinemann, 2004), and Christopher Browning has a major chapter on him in Collected memories: Holocaust history and postwar testimony (London: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2003). Much of the cultural history of the trial viewed is discussed in Jeffrey Shandler, While America Watches: Televising the Holocaust (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999). 5 Philippe, Lacoue-Labarthe, Heidegger, art and politic, trans. Chris Turner (Oxford: Blackwell, 1990) and Diana Fuss's excellent Identification Papers (London: Routledge, 1995) both cover this, and I discuss it at length in Robert Eaglestone, The Holocaust and the Postmodern (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004). 6 Paul Fussell, Wartime (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989), p. 132. 7 Adam Piette, ‘World War II: contested Europe’, The Cambridge History of Twentieth-century English literature, Laura Marcus and Peter Nicholls (eds), (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), pp. 417–35, 431. 8 Angus Calder, The Myth of the Blitz (London: Jonathan Cape 1991), p. 157. 9 Calder, The Myth, p. 272. 1 Bran Nicol. Iris Murdoch: The Retrospective Fiction (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004), p. xii. 2 Ibid., pp. xvii–xviii. 3 Ibid., p. 75. 4 Ibid., p. 180.