Transcending Shadows

Transforming Generational Wounds Through Three Generations
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-032-22428-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 300 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

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.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Professional

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lin, Yao

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Marxismus, Kommunismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (S. Freud)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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).