Yao Lin

Transcending Shadows (eBook, ePUB)

Transforming Generational Wounds Through Three Generations

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Based on interviews with three generations of three families, this book clarifies why the Cultural Revolution in China (1966-1976) had a uniquely traumatic impact on those affected, and shows the forms this trauma has taken in the lives of their second and third generations at both inter-subjective and intra-psychic levels.

As a psychoanalytically oriented, qualitative study of the aftermath of the Cultural Revolution, this book investigates the role played by the beliefs, practices, and narratives which were ideologically formative during the Cultural Revolution, showing their role in the trans-generational transmission of trauma and how they still prevent a collective means of dealing with this trauma today. Instead of a collective remembering, a collective repression prevents the symbolization of memory on a societal level, and families serve as a space for this unresolved trauma. In this context, psychoanalysis is shown to be an effective way of interrupting and healing the transmission of trauma across the generations. Within a longer historical framework, this book also explores the Cultural Revolution as a defensive compulsory repetition of the traumas that China had previously experienced on a political and cultural level.

Bearing witness to a personal process of transforming a wound into work, this first-person account offers in-depth understanding and guidance for psychotherapists and psychoanalysts engaged in interrupting and healing the trans-generational transmission of trauma.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040102992
• Artikelnr.: 72271190

Autorenporträt

Yao Lin, PhD, studied psychology at Wuhan University; trained in clinical psychology at China University of Geosciences and Wuhan Mental Hospital; and received her PhD from the Department of Anthropology and Cultural Research at University of Bremen. Dr. Lin is a private practice psychotherapist and a psychoanalyst in training as a candidate of the International Psychoanalysis Association (IPA).

Inhaltsangabe

Part One 1. Introduction Part Two: Theoretical Framework 2. Trauma Theories
in Psychoanalysis 3. A Selective Survey of Literature on the
Trans-Generational Transmission of Trauma Part Three: My Investigation 4.
Research Field: The Cultural Revolution and its Cultural and Social
Uniqueness 5. My Field Work in China 6. Case 1 - Hua's Family: Guo, Hua and
Rui 7. Case 2 - Qing's Family: Hong, Qing and Yang 8. Case 3 - Ying's
Family: Lan, Ying and Mei 9. Discussion and Conclusion