| Abstract: | The profound influence of the Holocaust on the further fate of survivors and on that of their children remained for a long time unrecognized. Psychoanalysis, too, noticed this influence of persecution not until the seventies. This article reviews the development ten years after and demonstrates by case studies, how the topic of survival determined the whole personal world of the next generation. The topics change along with the phase-specific developmental themes and depending on what happened to the parents. The connections of these topics to the developmental phases are prepared by the auxiliary ego-functions survivor-parents have for their children. |
