scholarly journals Transgenerational Trauma and Cyclical Haunting in Pat Barker’s Regeneration Trilogy

2015 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Meera Atkinson
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Analysis ◽  
Transgenerational Trauma ◽  
Transgenerational Transmission ◽  
Transmission Of Trauma ◽  
Transgenerational Transmission Of Trauma ◽  
The Way

‘The poetics of trans-trauma’ is my abbreviation for writing that embodies the familial transgenerational transmission of trauma and its relationship to cultural and collective operations of trauma and affect. Drawing primarily on Pat Barker's Regeneration Trilogy, this essay explores the poetics of what I call ‘cyclical haunting’—a term that describes the way historic and social traumatic affect feeds into subjective and familial experience, and in turn plays out past these interpersonal realms to networks beyond: events, movements, collectives, institutions, milieus, trends, communities, politics, creeds, religions, genders, sub-cultures, nations and relations between humanity and the planet it inhabits. I argue that Barker's trilogy, though apparently conventional, if masterful, in form and language, is radical in its testimony to the complexity and of such cycles, and that as such it stands as a vital cultural analysis and political account.

Unresolved Trauma and Japanese Identity after the Second World War / Trauma No Resuelto e Identidad Japonesa Tras la Segunda Guerra Mundial

FORUM ◽  
2011 ◽  
pp. 85-100
Author(s):  
Kaoru Nishimura
Keyword(s):  
Second World War ◽  
War Trauma ◽  
World War ◽  
Transgenerational Transmission ◽  
Unconscious Processes ◽  
Indirect Transmission ◽  
Transmission Of Trauma ◽  
Unresolved Trauma ◽  
Second World ◽  
Transgenerational Transmission Of Trauma

I have never been in war. So, I hesitate to say anything about the injuries of war but the concept of Transgenerational Transmission of Trauma (TTT) helps me to think about the footprints of war surrounding me. I will focus on three types of TTT. First, transmission through unconscious processes in society as a whole; second, transmission through related media; and third, direct and indirect transmission within family. These overlap with one another and develop hand-in-hand.Nunca estuve en la guerra. Por ello me cuesta decir cualquier cosa sobre las heridas de guerra, pero el concepto de Transmisión Transgeneracional del Trauma (TTT) me ayuda a pensar sobre las huellas de la guerra que me rodean. Me centraré en tres tipos de TTT. Primero, la transmisión por procesos inconscientes en la sociedad global; segundo, la transmisión a través de medios relacionados; y tercero, la transmisión directa e indirecta dentro de la familia. Se solapan entre sí y se desarrollan mano-a-mano.

scholarly journals Transgenerational Transmission of Trauma across Three Generations of Alevi Kurds

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 81
Author(s):  
Jan Ilhan Kizilhan ◽  
Michael Noll-Hussong ◽  
Thomas Wenzel
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Religious Groups ◽  
National Socialist ◽  
Western Turkey ◽  
Transgenerational Transmission ◽  
Traumatic Memories ◽  
Three Generations ◽  
Transmission Of Trauma ◽  
Few Data ◽  
Transgenerational Transmission Of Trauma

Background: Thus far, most researchers on genocide and transgenerational transmissions have focused on the National Socialist Holocaust as the most abhorrent example of this severe human rights violation. Few data have been published on other ethnic or religious groups affected by genocidal actions in this context. Methodology: Using a mixed-method approach integrating qualitative interviews with standardized instruments (SCID and PDS), this study examines how individual and collective trauma have been handed down across three generations in an Alevi Kurd community whose members (have) suffered genocidal perpetrations over a longer time period (a “genocidal environment”). Qualitative, open-ended interviews with members of three generations answering questions yielded information on (a) how their lives are shaped by the genocidal experiences from the previous generation and related victim experiences, (b) how the genocidal events were communicated in family narratives, and (c) coping strategies used. The first generation is the generation which directly suffered the genocidal actions. The second generation consists of children of those parents who survived the genocidal actions. Together with their family (children, partner, relatives), this generation suffered forced displacement. Members of the third generation were born in the diaspora where they also grew up. Results: Participants reported traumatic memories, presented in examples in this publication. The most severe traumatic memories included the Dersim massacre in 1937–1938 in Turkey, with 70,000–80,000 victims killed, and the enforced resettlement in western Turkey. A content analysis revealed that the transgenerational transmission of trauma continued across three generations. SCID and PDS data indicated high rates of distress in all generations. Conclusions: Genocidal environments such as that of the Kurdish Alevis lead to transgenerational transmission mediated by complex factors.

Conclusion: Wounding Transmissions

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amit Pinchevski
Keyword(s):  
Technological Capability ◽  
Transgenerational Trauma ◽  
Cognitive Level ◽  
The Real ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Transmission Of Trauma ◽  
The Media ◽  
Warren Weaver ◽  
The Way

“Transmission” is a term used, curiously enough, in both technology and psychology. In the former, it denotes the transfer of messages from one point to another, a view that was principally theorized by Claude Shannon and Warren Weaver. Technologically speaking, transmission names the conveyance of information from sender to receiver through a designated channel by means of symbols or signals. This technical formulation of transmission constitutes the operational basis of numerous media technologies. In psychology, transmission is often used to describe the way behavior and symptoms of traumatized parents are transferred to their children, causing transgenerational trauma. Such transmission can be direct or indirect, overt or covert; indeed, transmission of trauma might be the result of either over-disclosure of knowledge and facts, or of under- disclosure, even of persistent silence, which “can often communicate traumatic messages as powerfully as words.” In both technological and psychological uses, transmission denotes a unilateral handing over across space and/ or time. But clearly psychological transmission implies more than the mere delivery of messages: it involves a delivery that exceeds that of meaning or information proper, a transmission taking place as though beyond words, on the affective rather than on the cognitive level. This book has posited media as linking the two senses of transmission above by virtue of the technological capability of effecting impact in excess of message, and contact in excess of content. And nowhere are the stakes in linking technological and psychological transmissions higher than in the mediation of trauma. In this book I have advanced an argument about the deep association of media and trauma. The media discussed here—radio, videotape, television, digital, and virtual—comprise different instantiations of the mediation of trauma: the ways media technologies sustain and convey the experience of unsettling experience. Media reach to the Real, and in so doing make available a register whose registration is of corporeality itself. Bodies find expression through media in the Real, revealing materiality as a common substratum.

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