Homecoming

Joannidis, Christo

doi:10.1080/0803706x.2011.650200

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“…These “perennial mourners,” as he calls them, make frequent use of “linking objects” to keep themselves in a limbo between the lost place of origin and the place of their current life, thus denying themselves “substantial rootedness” in either. These “linking objects” can be concrete photographs, maps, mementos, and so on, or they can be abstract inner entities such as thoughts, screen memories, traditionality or religiosity, or sometimes even an adhesion to fossilized notions like unquestionable nationalism or other internal objects (Joannidis, 2013 , p. 135).…”

Section: Trauma Ferenczi and The Trauma Of Immigrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Social Trauma, Nostalgia and Mourning in the Immigration Experience

Lijtmaer

2022

Am J Psychoanal

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Immigration and exile can qualify as social traumas. The individual is deprived of a holding, secure environment in which to continue their life. The process of mourning is a necessary step to connect with “going on being.” Another psychic experience in migration is nostalgia ; it helps the immigrant defend against the aggression resulting from current frustrations. The feeling of nostalgia can also be used to protect the ego from inadequacy. The complex components of nostalgia come from positive ones such as joy and gratitude connected with sadness about the associated loss of security, familiarity, and historical continuity. At other times, nostalgia cannot evolve, particularly in forced migration or exile. In this case, the individual enters a depressed state with accompanying feelings of self-pity, resentment, envy, and guilt, which prevents the mourning process from developing. To deal with these painful experiences, the person resorts to linking objects or linking phenomena that help them continue having contact with the past, while adjusting to their new environment.

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Section: Trauma Ferenczi and The Trauma Of Immigrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Social Trauma, Nostalgia and Mourning in the Immigration Experience

Lijtmaer

2022

Am J Psychoanal

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“…I came home to a place I didn't know, and again I was displaced (Joannidis, 2013). All around me was the language that I yearned for, the history that I had learnt, the dust of my ancestors under my feet.…”

Section: Etch Stitch: I Am a Colonial Subjectmentioning

confidence: 99%

Storymaking Belonging

Bunda

Heckenberg²,

Snepvangers

et al. 2019

Art/Research International

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Sometimes data invites more of us. To be physically held and touched, through hands creating and crafting with matter, cultivating a closer connection to the fibres, threads, textures and sinews of data. Through touching and shaping the materiality of data, other beings, places and times are aroused. Here, we share the story of data that invited more of us and how this has spurred the creation of an exhibition titled Stories of Belonging with Indigenous and non-Indigenous artist/scholars for an arts festival in Queensland, Australia. This work by the collective, SISTAS Holding Space, deeply interrogates our ontological positionality as researchers, in particular what this means in the Australian context – a colonised nation populated through waves of migration. The scars of colonization, migration and shame are held and heard through Black and White Australian women creating and interrogating belonging alongside each other – listening and holding space for each other. We air the pains of ontological destruction, silencing, disconnection and emptiness. Through experimental making research methodology, we argue the primacy of storying and making, and for provoking resonant and entangled understandings of belonging and displacement.

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