A Memory without Remindings
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https://doi.org/10.35494/topsem.2020.2.44.700Keywords:
attachment theory, intergenerational transmission of trauma, caregiving quality, epigeneticsAbstract
This paper discusses processes that may be involved in the intergenerational transmission of trauma, in the form of memory traces without any reminding. This process would constitute a specific type of “post-memory”. The central hypothesis, closely related to the attachment theory, assumes that when a traumatized person becomes a mother or a father, his/her caregiving quality can be disrupted by defensive segregation of emotions which, in turn, risks to provoke difficulties for the child to experience a feeling of security with his/her parent. Other hypotheses are also considered, particularly the epigenetic transgenerational transmission of trauma.
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a Child into a Social World (pp. 99-135). Londres. Cambridge University Press.
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Bakermans-Kranenburg, M. J., & Van Ijzendoorn, M. H. (2004). No Association of the Dopamine D4 Receptor
(DRD4) and-521 C/T Promoter Polymorphisms with Infant Attachment Disorganization. Attachment & Human
Development, 6(3), 211-218.
Bowlby, J. (1980). Attachment and Loss. Loss, Sadnes and Depression (Vol. 3). Nueva York. Basic Books.
Bretherton, I. (2000). Des modalités de relation aux modèles internes : la perspective de la théorie de
l’attachement. En O. Halfon, F. Ansermet & B. Pierrehumbert (Eds.), Filiations Psychiques (pp. 33-60). París.
PUF.
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An Empirical Study of the Relation Between Parents’mental Representations of Childhood Experiences and
their Infants’ Security of Attachment. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 41(4), 957-989.
Fraiberg, S. H., Adelson, E. & Shapiro, V. (1975). Ghosts in the Nursery: A Pshychoanalytic Approach to the
Problems of Impaires Infant-Mother Relationship. Journal of the American Academy of Child Psychiatry, 14(3),
387-421.
Haft, W. L. & Slade, A. (1989, June). Affect Attunement and Maternal Attachment. A Pilot Study. Infant Mental
Healt Journal, 10(3), 157-172.
Lakatos, K., Nemoda, Z., Toth, I., Ronai, Z., Ney, K., Sasvari-Szekely, M. & Gervai, J. (2002). Further Evidence for the
Role of the Dopamine D4 Receptor (DRD4) Gene in
Attachment Disorganization: Interaction of the Exón III 48-bp Repeat and the-521C/T Promoter Polymorphisms.
Molecular Psychiatry, 7, 27-31.
Main, M. & Hesse, E. (1990). ‘Parent’ Unresolver Traumatic Experiences are Related to Infant Disorganized
Attachment Status: Is Frightened adn/or Frigtening Parental Behavior the Linking Mechanism? En. M.T. Greenberg, D. Cicchetti y E.M. Cummings (Eds.), Attachment in the Preschool Years (pp. 161-182). Chicago.
University of Chicago Press.
Meaney, M. J., Aitken, D. H., Bodnoff, S. R., Iny, L. J., Tatarewicz, J. E. & Sapolsky, R. M. (1985). Early Postnatal
Handling Alters Glucocorticoid Receptor Concentrations in Selected Brain Regions. Behavioral Neuroscience,
99(4), 765-770.
Monhonval, P. & Lostra, F. (2014). Transmission transgénérationnelle des traits acquis par l’épigénétique.
Cahiers de Psychologie Clinique, 43(2), 29-42.
Premack, D. & Woodruff, G. (1978, December). Does the Chimpanzee Have a Theory of Mind? Behavioral and
Brain Sciences, 1(4) (A Special Issue on Cognition and Consiousness in Nonhuman Species), 515-526.
Saavedra Rodríguez, L. & Feig, L. A. (2013, June). Chronic Social Instability Induces Anxiety and Defective Social
Interactions Across Generations. Biological Psychiatry, 73(1), 44-53.
Schuengel, C., Bakermans-Kranenburg, M., Van Ijzendoorn, M. H. & Blom, M. (1999). Unresolved loss and infant
disorganization. En J. Solomon y C. George (Eds.), Attachment disorganization (pp. 71-94). Nueva York.
Guilford Press.
Stern, D.N (1989). Le monde interpersonnel du nourrison. Une perspective psychanalytique et
développementale. París. PUF (Le Fil Rouge).
Weaver, I. C. G. (2004, July). Early Environmental Regulation of Hippocampal Glucocorticoid Receptor Gene
Expression: Characterization of Intracellular Mediators and Potential Genomic Target Sites. Annals of New
York Academy of Sciences, 1024(4), 182-212.
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2020-10-07
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Pierrehumbert, B. (2020). A Memory without Remindings. Tópicos Del Seminario, 2(44), 50–61. https://doi.org/10.35494/topsem.2020.2.44.700
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