Clinical and historical perspectives on the intergenerational transmission of trauma

Loewenberg, Peter

doi:10.4324/9780429476884-5

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“…1 Wilke (2016) describes how the pathological intergenerational transmission of traumatic experience and compulsive re‐enactment of the chosen trauma serves to retain a sense of identity, and prevent fragmentation. Taking a clinical perspective on the intergenerational transmission of trauma, and the associated scars left on the German, Israeli, Palestinian and Chinese social unconscious and histories, Loewenberg (2012) demonstrates how strong and persistent its effects can be.…”

Section: The Intergenerational Transmission Of Traumamentioning

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Some psychoanalytic reflections on the Irish real estate bubble

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Branigan

2023

Appl Psychoanal Studies

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We use the recent destructive Irish residential real estate bubble and its parlous economic and social consequences to explore the role of repressed ancestral suffering in driving institutional and broader societal responses to contemporary events. We demonstrate how a traumatic past can become interwoven in the fabric of the social order, rendering state and parastatal organizations and their leaders powerless. The concept of intergenerational transmission of trauma is key to our analysis. We show how the Irish obsession with owning property and land is a psychic attempt to transcend the traumatic past to “inhabit” an idealized pre‐colonial land leading to emergent feelings of empowerment, euphoria and omnipotence. We also explain why the Irish real estate bubble is being re‐enacted so soon. The potential to enhance interpretation through insights from literature, drama, and poetry is illustrated.

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Section: The Intergenerational Transmission Of Traumamentioning

confidence: 99%

Some psychoanalytic reflections on the Irish real estate bubble

Ryan

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Branigan

2023

Appl Psychoanal Studies

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“…A number of psychoanalysts (e.g. Loewenberg 2012), in discussing intergenerational transmission of trauma, also talk about ‘ the secret ’: the child, sensing something in the parent that is not consciously acknowledged (unprocessed trauma), takes it in, identifying with the parent’s loss and, through this process, sacrifices their own identity (see also Cavalli 2012). In this way, children are forced to dream the nightmares of their parents (for example, this is often experienced by the children of Holocaust survivors).…”

Section: Intergenerational Transmissionmentioning

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Meeting the orphan: early relational trauma, synchronicity and the psychoid

Lagutina¹

2021

J Analytical Psychology

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In this paper I attempt to show how deep engagement, which is gradually developed within the relational container, can facilitate access to the psychoid dimension of the unconscious characterized by a quality of interconnectedness. The resulting synchronistic experiences can support and strengthen this container as well as having profound re‐connecting impact on the people involved. With this in mind, I suggest that openness to this dimension can be very important in working with the issues of loss, abandonment, aloneness and mistrust in human connections – the symbolic domain of the orphan. Although none of the patients I describe in this paper were actual orphans, symbolically the orphan theme featured significantly in their processes, in that early relational trauma left them feeling profoundly alone and unable to trust human contact. For this reason, the most important yet difficult challenge of the work was to help them restore their sense of connectedness to themselves and to others. I consider the role of attunement and reverie as the basis for facilitating this openness and propose that such openness can be seen as a feature of the analytic attitude in its own right and that it constitutes a unique contribution of the Jungian approach to working with early trauma.

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“…Traumatic knowledge cannot be made entirely conscious (Caruth 10); as a result, the events that precipitate Esther’s trauma are shrouded in secrecy. Esther never speaks about the cold winter and its effect on her, and, understanding “the family message of the unmentionable” (Loewenberg, 2012, p. 59), her daughters never ask about it. Esther remains possessed by the cold winter precisely because it remains unspoken.…”

Section: Part Iii: Psychic Pain and Trauma Theorymentioning

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Trauma and Empowerment in Tina McElroy Ansa’s Ugly Ways

Ogunyemi

2021

Journal of Black Studies

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Ugly Ways (1993) by Tina McElroy Ansa has been overlooked as a significant contribution to African American feminist literary fiction. This paper performs a close reading examining the novel’s thematic intersection of Black feminist theory and trauma theory. Part one of this essay defines Black feminist theory and outlines key concepts of Black feminist thought. Parts two and three focus on the protagonist, Esther “Mudear” Lovejoy, and analyze her “change” through the lenses of Black feminist theory and trauma theory, respectively, highlighting the ways in which Ugly Ways articulates a conception of Black womanhood defined in equal parts by empowerment and psychic pain. Part four argues that Black feminist theory and trauma theory are not just compatible, but consonant. Ultimately, Ugly Ways depicts African American women as complex human subjects and moves beyond conventional historical, literary, and popular representations.

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Clinical and historical perspectives on the intergenerational transmission of trauma

Cited by 3 publications

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Some psychoanalytic reflections on the Irish real estate bubble

Some psychoanalytic reflections on the Irish real estate bubble

Meeting the orphan: early relational trauma, synchronicity and the psychoid

Trauma and Empowerment in Tina McElroy Ansa’s Ugly Ways

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