Episode 21: The Long Shadow of Trauma – Transgenerational Transmission
Summary: “A trauma does not disappear through silence; it cannot be silenced out of existence. It remains effective in fantasies, dreams, and experiences, but eludes language and thus understanding. It only becomes more diffuse, more intangible; it becomes a shadow or an undead, casting an invisible spell over the family history… But how do you break a spell?”
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Literature Recommendations:
Balint, M. (1969). Trauma and object relationship. The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 50(4), 429–435.
Bar-On, D. (1993). Legacy of Silence: Encounters with Children of the Third Reich. Harvard: Harvard University Press
Faimberg, H. (1987). The Telescoping of Generations: Listening to the Narcissistic Links Between Generations (The New Library Of Psychoanalysis). London: Routledge.
Grimbert, P. (2012). Secret. London: Portobello Books.
Grubrich-Simitis, I. (1981). Extreme Traumatization as Cumulative Trauma: Psychoanalytic Investigations of the Effects of Concentration Camp Experiences on Survivors and Their Children. The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 36, 415–450.
Rosenthal, G. (2009): The Holocaust in Three-Generations. Families of Victims and Perpetrators of the Nazi-Regime. Opladen: Barbara Budrich.
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Speakers: Soliman Lawrence & Rebecca Dyson-Smith
Translation: Soliman Lawrence
Written and produced by Dr. Cécile Loetz & Dr. Jakob Johann Müller
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