Lost in Transmission

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Lost in Transmission is written by M Gerard Fromm and published by Routledge. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0367325446 (ISBN 10) and 9780367325442 (ISBN 13).

A central thesis of this volume is that what human beings cannot contain of their experiencewhat has been traumatically overwhelming, unbearable, unthinkablefalls out of social discourse, but very often onto and into the next generation, as an affective sensitivity or a chaotic urgency. What appears to be a person's symptom may turn out to be a symbolin the context of this book, a symbol of an unconscious missionto repair a parent or avenge a humiliation assigned by the preceding generation. These tasks may be more or less idiosyncratic to a given family, suffering its own personal trauma, or collective in response to societal trauma.