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Depositing Transgenerational Transmission Dissociation and Remembering Through Action. This book relates the psychoanalytic journey of a man in his thirties, a grandson of a high-level SS officer, whose case illustrates how individuals can sometimes suffer greatly or cause the suffering of other innocent persons, simply because they are descendants of perpetrators.
List of contents
Preface , Introduction , The impact of the Third Reich: The end of "silence" in psychoanalysis , Victor: A man who lived in two different worlds , A look at narcissism, splitting, depositing, dissociation, and encapsulation , The "Firefighter" , A dead old man whose heart kept beating , The T4 euthanasia programme , Locked-up letters , Let there be oxygen , Legal redress and the psychology of remembering through actions , Photography, maggots, and jumping over a barbed wire fence , Searching for and finding a new life , Another look at identification, depositing, and transgenerational transmission
About the author
Vamik D Volkan
Summary
This book relates the psychoanalytic journey of a man in his thirties, a grandson of a high-level SS officer, whose case illustrates how individuals can sometimes suffer greatly or cause the suffering of other innocent persons, simply because they are descendants of perpetrators.
