Volkan, V. D. (2001). Group Analysis, 34(1), 79–97.
Not read. The summary is drawn from the abstract or from what the work is standardly cited for. A reading should check it first.
Why this is here
Trauma inherited as identity: descendants carry as their own an injury done to their ancestors, the past-facing counterpart of the owner’s thesis. For QUESTION-297.
Read in its place
The work cannot be read here, so the record holds it at second hand.
Volkan’s 2021 lecture (NOTE-1250, section on chosen traumas) gives his definition of a chosen trauma: the shared image of an ancestral injury at another group’s hands, real or mythologized, which changes function as it is transmitted and becomes a marker of large-group identity. It gives the Kosovo 1389 example the LIT summary names, with Milošević’s time collapse and Lazar’s bones, and the link to entitlement ideology, dehumanization and purification. It gives transmission only in outline, as parents depositing images and ego tasks in children. The LIT’s summary agrees with it. Missing still: the 2001 text itself, which the lecture does not cite; its account of how transmission works across several generations; its case material and sources; and whether in 2001 Volkan already separated chosen trauma from the undigested trauma of recent events.