Summary
Bruno Clavier: Family Ghosts
"I have already presented the concept of a transgenerational ghost as an emotional psychic structure that is the result of some trauma. It was "launched" by some ancestor who could not assimilate, overcome, transcend the trauma. Some authors speak of a 'hot potato', but I prefer the image of an unactivated bomb: it can be passed from generation to generation without visible damage until it explodes in the form of incomprehensible pathological For example, the unimaginable pain of a parent who has lost a child can be taken over by one of his descendants, and often by several subsequent generations. The conscious memory of the ancestors' trauma is usually lost because the traumatized person, who has entered a state of insensitivity, is no longer able to bear witness to the emotional violence he suffered...
The goal of the transgenerational process is not to condemn or reject our ancestors, but to try to understand what happened to them and understand why they could not do anything else. what they did, with the psychological and emotional resources that were available to them. Far from the search for original sin, it is the path towards the human understanding of the trauma whose traces are buried in silence. These traces are revealed above all by repeating the structure of the 'psychic and emotional phantom' relegated to the darkness of the 'unspoken' or 'unthought'..." a psychic void, a state of numbness, she is no longer able to bear witness to the emotional violence she suffered... The goal of the Transgenerational Procedure is not to condemn or reject our ancestors, but to try to understand what happened to them and understand why they could not do anything but what they did, with the psychological and emotional resources at their disposal."
Author Bruno Clavier in his work Family Ghosts.
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