Psychoanalyses of Children of Survivors From the Holocaust: Case Presentations and Assessment
- 1 August 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association
- Vol. 28 (4) , 775-804
- https://doi.org/10.1177/000306518002800402
Abstract
Case illustrations are used to support the hypothesis that there may be a survivor-child's complex, though a pathological syndrome cannot be detected. A metapsychological profile extrapolated from a long analysis is intended to serve as a vehicle for comparison with other similar cases. The salient features of this profile seem to be derived from the survivor's family's intense preoccupation with life and death and with the means of undoing the parent's past degradation and redeeming his guilt.Keywords
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