ABSTRACT
Psychoanalytic ideas are helpful in determining how different people's minds can affect each other; how one's ways of thinking and behaving may affect others. From a theoretical perspective, the denial of known events of genocide is an act of psychological aggression against humanity by the perpetrator. The process by which the innocent deniers bring about mitigation of the significance of a case of genocide and decontextualization of its reality is manipulative. The most characteristic cruelty in genocides is its collective mentality, as it requires group co-operation, organization, shared mentality and togetherness to torture, kill, destroy and destruct. One of the most noticeable consequences of genocide is the traumatic effect of the event that sometimes alters the survivor's capacity for symbolic thinking. This may cause difficulties, because when the capacity for symbolization is hindered it is poorly available for the process of working through.
