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When culture fails: coping with cultural trauma |
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| Authors: | Danut&#x Gailien&#x |
| Affiliation: | Danutė Gailienė |
| Abstract: | The research into the phenomenon of cultural trauma is growing as the effects of historical transformations are recognized and analysed. The concept of cultural trauma and the analytic concept of the cultural complex is a suitable theoretical approach for this research. The Lithuanian experience of cultural trauma after the historical shifts indicates the importance of the interplay between societal and individual factors in coping with trauma. Academic psychotraumatological studies carried out at Vilnius University indicate a stronger traumatic experience by people who are survivors of direct political repression and even intergenerational transmission of trauma, but this group also seems to demonstrate an intergenerational transmission of resilience. Paradoxically, from a long‐term perspective, the victims of direct repression seem to have suffered less than the people who accommodated to the regime, and this applies also to their offspring. Analysis in terms of overcoming cultural trauma indicates that society is gradually integrating historic traumatic experiences, although a healthy cultural identity has not yet been restored. |
| Keywords: | coping cultural complex cultural trauma intergenerational transmission of trauma resilience soviet experience survivors of political repression traumatisme culturel complexe culturel expé rience sovié tique victime de ré pression politique ré silience transmission intergé né rationnelle de traumatisme faire face Kulturtrauma Kultureller Komplex Sovieterfahrung Ü berlebende von politischer Repression Resilienz intergenerationale Weitergabe von Traumata Coping trauma culturale complesso culturale esperienza sovietica sopravvissuti a repressioni politiche resilienza trasmissione intergenerazionale del trauma coping к у л ь т у р н а я т р а в м а к у л ь т у р н ы й к о м п л е к с с о в е т с к и й о п ы т в ы ж и в ш и е в п о л и т и ч е с к и х р е п р е с с и я х м е ж п о к о л е н ч е с к а я п е р е д а ч а т р а в м ы к о п и н г trauma cultural complejo cultural experiencia sovié tica sobrevivientes de represió n polí tica resiliencia transmisió n intergeneracional del trauma enfrentar 文 化 创 伤 文 化 情 结 苏 联 经 验 政 治 压 迫 幸 存 者 弹 性 创 伤 的 代 际 传 递 应 对 |