Intergenerational transmission of trauma in the experiences of young adult individuals of Jewish origin

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 107-119
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Krawczyk
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Young Adult ◽  
Intergenerational Transmission ◽  
Special Form ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
The Self ◽  
Intergenerational Transmission Of Trauma ◽  
Jewish Origin ◽  
Emotional Distance ◽  
Transmission Of Trauma

My research falls within a qualitative orientation. The purpose of this study is to show the ways and consequences of intergenerational transmission of trauma as reflected in the life experiences of young adults. Data were analyzed using a linguistic-narrative method. In this paper, I look at the intergenerational transmission of trauma in Jewish families as reflected in the life experiences of young adults. They see the consequences of trauma in their loved ones and in themselves. In the case of the former, they can be grouped into three categories: fear of disclosing one’s nationality, a special form of which is the prohibition on speaking about one's Jewish origin to one’s descendants and the change of name by one’s ancestors; overprotectiveness towards one’s descendants; and showing emotional distance from them. In turn, the consequences of trauma perceived in the self are: fear of strangers and overprotectiveness towards one's own children.

scholarly journals Experiencing the multiculturalism of people of Jewish origin in the perspective of intergenerational transmission

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 87-106
Author(s):  
Magda Karkowska ◽  
Agnieszka Krawczyk
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Intergenerational Transmission ◽  
Narrative Identity ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Young Person ◽  
Jewish Origin ◽  
Sources Of Knowledge ◽  
Cultural Pattern ◽  
Self Knowledge ◽  
Different Cultures

In this paper we present the ways in which young adults of Jewish origin experience multiculturalism. Gaining such experiences helps to shape self-knowledge and to build narrative identity. We also analyze the role that different cultures play for the socialization of a young person. The following concepts constitute the theoretical axis of our article: cultural pattern, habitus, intergenerational transmission, communicative knowledge, conjunctive knowledge and multiculturalism. We supplement our consideration of them with data from interviews that were conducted in a community of young adults of Jewish origin. We refer primarily to such life experiences as: sources of knowledge about oneself and Jewish culture, intergenerational transmission, the sense of one’s own difference, giving meaning to one’s origin, the need for community, intellectualism and mysticism, and constructing one’s own identity. The research referred to falls within a qualitative orientation.

scholarly journals The Gaols of Guyana: Hauntology and Trauma in the soundscape of Prison

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tammy Ayres ◽  
Dylan Kerrigan
Keyword(s):  
Economic System ◽  
Intergenerational Transmission ◽  
Social Action ◽  
Structural Violence ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Intergenerational Transmission Of Trauma ◽  
The Past ◽  
Political Analysis ◽  
Transmission Of Trauma ◽  
The Impact

Using Hauntology, this paper illustrates how the supposed demise of a socio-political and economic system – colonialism – still impacts on and has something to offer contemporary political analysis in Guyana’s gaols. Drawing on Fiddler’s spatio-hauntology alongside the work of Derrida and Gordon this paper shows how hauntology provides an alternative theoretical framework to look at the intergenerational transmission of trauma, which can be traced back to colonialism and slavery. It acknowledges the impact structural violence has on the collective imaginary and how this – consciously and unconsciously – shapes the psychosocial material underpinning contemporary Guyanese identities, desires, experiences, social action, and systems of punishment which includes prisons – its buildings, space, regimes, processes, sounds, laws and rationale. Guyana’s prisons contain phantoms of the past. Only by acknowledging Guyana’s ghosts and the phantasm of past trauma is it that we can begin to understand contemporary Guyana and Guyanese society, which includes their jails.

scholarly journals “A Life in Paradox”: Experiences of Young Adult Stroke Survivors

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rudolf Cymorr Kirby Palogan Martinez ◽  
Migliore H. Macuja ◽  
Paul Remson Manzo ◽  
Sarah J. Bujawe
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Conflict Resolution ◽  
Young Adult ◽  
Family Involvement ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Levels Of Analysis ◽  
Individual Experience ◽  
Stroke Survivors ◽  
The Family

This study, rooted on phenomenological approach, explored the experiences of post-stoke young adults. Seven (7) participants were gathered as co-researchers and were selected thoroughly based on the following criteria: 1) They are Filipino who had stroke at the age of 15-35 and 2) They are able and willing to articulate, participate, and share their life experiences. Further, the experiences of the participants were gathered and enhanced through the following methods: 1) Interview, and 2) Storytelling. Subsequently, three levels of analysis were done ensuing the process developed by Martinez (2013), grounded on interpretative phenomenology. Through the process of reflective analysis, three themes have emerged and are as follows: (a) “Sometimes, what is forbidden is pleasurable”: Dilemma of Needs and Wants(b) “I accepted it... my family is still accepting it”: Centrality and Ambiguity of the Family(c) “I become feeble but stronger”: Resilience in VulnerabilityThe themes represent a recurring pattern among the lives of the co-researchers from having the desire to change their old ways and habits but acting otherwise. Further, these patterns are reflected in the positionality of their family as both a burden that reminds them that they have a disease yet serves as the main reason they continue to fight. This also mirrors how they view stroke as something that defeated them but in the process taught them resilience in life. The insight of a “life in paradox”, then serves as the central essence of the study.Insights from the study suggest that the experience of the co-researchers is more than an individual experience of conflict resolution but a phenomenon of family’s contextualization. Studies that explore compliance among post stroke young adult as well as family involvement in rehabilitation is then suggested.

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