Abstract
This article focuses on the intergenerational transmission of Holocaust trauma to the second generation and the notion of unconscious identification as a significant mechanism in the transmission of these traumas. Through extended clinical material, I will illustrate the critical alterations to one's sense of time, agency, and personal narrative when, as a second-generation survivor, one does not accept and mourn the traumatic losses of the previous generation. The article details the theoretical and phenomenological links and workings connecting trauma, mourning, and time, and how disruptions may result in transmission to the next generation. The subjectivity of the analyst, understood as a key element in the theoretical and clinical case formulation, is discussed, as are the interlocking and colliding transference and countertransference enactments.
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