TIME: FROM INFINITY TO NO MORE, FOR HOW LONG?
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https://doi.org/10.32782/upj/2024-1-7Keywords:
Multigenerational legacies, trauma, rupture, continuity/rupture/repair, self/identity, conspiracy of silence in the aftermath of trauma posttrauma adaptational styles, reparative adaptational impacts.Abstract
This article delineates multidimensional cumulative personal as well as professional meanings of spaciotemporal dream image/s to illustrate their ever-deepening multi- determined and multi-determining influences throughout an individual’s lifetime. These might include choice of interests, even of focus, guiding direction, structure formations and of span of work/life. This is contrasted with the rupture following trauma that, instead of continuously enriching one’s life, breaks it to before and after the trauma. Further, the ubiquitous conspiracy of silence in the aftermath of trauma, further marks survivors’ (heterogeneous) posttrauma adaptational styles (PAS) and conscious and unconscious self/identity and the resulting transmission of trauma to succeeding generations. These styles encompass those intrafamilial and interpersonal psychological and behavioral coping, mastery and defense mechanisms the victim/survivor adopted as survival strategies during and after the trauma. According to Danieli’s theory entitled trauma and the continuity of self: A multidimensional, multidisciplinary, integrative framework, the child is born into the survivor’/s’ parent/s bio-psychosocial PAS milieu, and develops reparative adaptational impacts (RAI) to adapt to the parent’/s’ victim, fighter and/or numb adaptational styles. This construct (the RAI) expresses the core, perhaps unconscious, motivation of the second generation to undo and repair the past and heal their parents and themselves. The word impacts was chosen to connote both their plurality and their multigenerational dynamics. Utilizing the three-part Danieli Inventory for Multigenerational Legacies of trauma in both North America and Israel enabled the researchers to meaningfully compare the data generated online from the two populations of children of Nazi Holocaust survivors – one in the diaspora, the other in their homeland. In both populations, beyond the finding of indirect effect (via the parents) of primarily the Victim and Numb styles independently in both parents on the intensity of their children’s RAIs, we found both direct and indirect effect of broken generational linkages on the children. But the Israeli children of survivors fared better (had lower intensity RAIs) than their North American counterparts. The article analyzes the numerous findings of this study that would be conducted in Ukraine as well.
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