Journal title INTERAZIONI
Author/s Alice Lazzarini
Publishing Year 2016 Issue 2016/1
Language Italian Pages 17 P. 89-105 File size 177 KB
DOI 10.3280/INT2016-001008
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Observing that some patients who suffer and carry a violent rage, to them incomprehensible, belong to endangered families, the author examines the possible link between the individual internal violence, potentially devastating, and the end of a familiar clan. This article traces the clinical history and the life of a man descending from a family clan that in 1944 suffered from decimation of the heads of household, this massacre being sealed in a tomb of silence, in private as well as in public. This article puts forward the hypothesis that a collective trauma left as unprocessed (because of individuals, families or political resistances) may originate what the author here defines as a "generative block". This block would lead to a sort of family self-destruction, based on collective unconscious pacts. The article also suggests that everyone - individuals, family groups, political parties and whole nations - need a latency period to exit from a state of emotional and cognitive anaesthesia, before being able to give a meaning to traumatic events, initially scotomized as well as denied.
Keywords: Unprocessed collective trauma, unconscious pacts, generative block, latency period, re-signification
Alice Lazzarini, Traumi familiari e blocco generativo in "INTERAZIONI" 1/2016, pp 89-105, DOI: 10.3280/INT2016-001008