Lost in transmission: studies of trauma across generations
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London Karnac Books 2011
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Part 1. Shadows of the Holocaust: The second generation in the shadow of terror ; The broken chain : legacies of trauma and war ; Traumatic shutdown of narrative and symbolization : a death instinct derivative? ; Clinical and historical perspectives on the intergenerational transmission of trauma -- Part 2. Inside the consulting room: The intertwining of the internal and external wars ; Treatment resistance and the transmission of trauma ; Turns of a phrase : traumatic learning through the generations ; Intergenerational violence and the family myth ; A quixotic approach to trauma and psychosis -- Part 3. Contemporary America: A mosaic of transmissions after trauma ; Heroes at home : the transmission of trauma in firefighters' families ; Afterword : lost and found
A central thesis of this volume is that what human beings cannot contain of their experience - what has been traumatically overwhelming, unbearable, unthinkable - falls out of social discourse, but very often onto and into the next generation, as an affective sensitivity or a chaotic urgency. What appears to be a person's symptom may turn out to be a symbol - in the context of this book, a symbol of an unconscious mission - to repair a parent or avenge a humiliation - assigned by the preceding generation. These tasks may be more or less idiosyncratic to a given family, suffering its own person
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ISBN:1849409439
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