Psychoanalysis and Culture. A Short Comment on Tatjana Pushkaryova's Paper «Ruined lives: Repressions in the Soviet Union»

Psychoanalytic theories of trauma

  • Paolo Fonda
Keywords: group, culture, dialectic, trauma, false self, transgenerational trauma

Abstract

This paper is a comment to T. N. Pushkaryova paper on transgenerational traumas. It underlines a necessity of time, psychic and cultural work to contain and metabolize the traumatic experience. The "freezing" of traumatic experience in totalitarian regimes, imposing the false selves, memories and feelings on individuals, is oppiste to such work.

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Author Biography

Paolo Fonda

Paolo Fonda, is born and lives in Trieste (Italy). Psychiatrist, since 1990 works only as psychoanalyst. Training Analyst of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society. In 2002–2014 Director of "The IPA-EPF Han Groen Prakken Psychoanalytic Institute for Eastern Europe" (PIEE). Then for 4 years co-chair for Europe of the IPA International New Groups Committee. He published a number of works on narcissism, pathologic and normal fusion, psychoanalytic view of group and political process.

Published
2022-01-14
How to Cite
FondaP. (2022). Psychoanalysis and Culture. A Short Comment on Tatjana Pushkaryova’s Paper «Ruined lives: Repressions in the Soviet Union». Journal of Clinical and Applied Psychoanalysis, 2(4), 114-119. Retrieved from https://psychoanalysis-journal.hse.ru/article/view/13727
Issue
Vol 2 No 4 (2021): Journal of Clinical and Applied Psychoanalysis
Section
CLINICAL PSYCHOANALYSIS