Chapter 13 Traumatic traces of enforced disappearance through generations

Enforced disappearance is a crime against humanity that impacts the direct victim as well as their relatives and society through generations. Relying on psychoanalytic theory, we will explore the theme of the transgenerational transmission of trauma. We illustrate the complexity of this process with...

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Hauptverfasser: Bourguignon, Manon, Katz, Muriel, Dermitzel, Alice
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description Enforced disappearance is a crime against humanity that impacts the direct victim as well as their relatives and society through generations. Relying on psychoanalytic theory, we will explore the theme of the transgenerational transmission of trauma. We illustrate the complexity of this process with a family case study: a mother and her child coping with the disappearance of her brother during a period of dictatorship in a Latin American country. We demonstrate that the traces of the trauma endured by the relatives of the disappeared are caused by the state violence and the ambiguous loss of the person who was disappeared. These traumatic traces make the communication within a family very complex. The marks of this traumatic family history can be found in the child’s anxiety. This case illustrates the conscious and unconscious pact within the family group, and the way traces of state violence can be passed down through generations. Even forty years after the disappearance, time seems suspended. The persistent impunity hinders the recognition of the crime but also the work of elaboration and reparation for victims and for the second generation. Unresolved questions remain through the generations and they are passed on.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1318132025-06-24T07:40:46Z Chapter 13 Traumatic traces of enforced disappearance through generations Bourguignon, Manon Katz, Muriel Dermitzel, Alice Trauma, enforced, disappearance, psychoanalytic theory, disappearance, human bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JP Politics & government::JPV Political control & freedoms::JPVH Human rights bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JM Psychology bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JM Psychology::JMA Psychological theory & schools of thought::JMAF Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology) Enforced disappearance is a crime against humanity that impacts the direct victim as well as their relatives and society through generations. Relying on psychoanalytic theory, we will explore the theme of the transgenerational transmission of trauma. We illustrate the complexity of this process with a family case study: a mother and her child coping with the disappearance of her brother during a period of dictatorship in a Latin American country. We demonstrate that the traces of the trauma endured by the relatives of the disappeared are caused by the state violence and the ambiguous loss of the person who was disappeared. These traumatic traces make the communication within a family very complex. The marks of this traumatic family history can be found in the child’s anxiety. This case illustrates the conscious and unconscious pact within the family group, and the way traces of state violence can be passed down through generations. Even forty years after the disappearance, time seems suspended. The persistent impunity hinders the recognition of the crime but also the work of elaboration and reparation for victims and for the second generation. Unresolved questions remain through the generations and they are passed on. 2023-12-07T05:15:14Z 2023-12-07T05:15:14Z 2023-12-06T13:31:31Z 2024 chapter https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/85789 9781032320588 9781032320571 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/131813 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution 4.0 International Attribution 4.0 International Attribution 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/85789/1/9781003312642_10.4324_9781003312642-17.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/85789/1/9781003312642_10.4324_9781003312642-17.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/85789/1/9781003312642_10.4324_9781003312642-17.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781003312642-17 10.4324/9781003312642-17 fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 Psychoanalytic, Psychosocial, and Human Rights Perspectives on Enforced Disappearance Université de Lausanne 5e3ea520-899f-45a1-8f74-15b90558ce1f 9781032320588 9781032320571 Routledge 18 open access
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Bourguignon, Manon
Katz, Muriel
Dermitzel, Alice
Chapter 13 Traumatic traces of enforced disappearance through generations
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topic Trauma, enforced, disappearance, psychoanalytic theory, disappearance, human
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