Un-Silencing Traumatic Memories along the Slovenian-Italian Border

The Case of Psychotherapeutic and Anthropological Workshops

Bibliographic Data

ID6014156
AuthorsKatja Hrobat Virloget (0000-0002-6393-7816, Faculty of Humanities of the University of Primorska, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume53
Issue46
Pages141-161
Publication date2023-12-20
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEtnološka tribina (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0351-1944 • E-ISSN: 1848-9540
PublisherCroatian Ethnological Society (PUBLISHER • HR)
DOI10.15378/1848-9540.2023.46.05
OpenAlexW4390112520
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited14

The article is the author’s reflection on an interdisciplinary collaboration between cultural anthropology and psychotherapy, during which the workshops addressed the dissonant and traumatic memories of the society along the Slovenian-Italian border. It addresses the plurality of voices in the frame of contested and divergent memories, caught in a competition of victimhood. The author argues that the past and the future are inevitably intertwined; by changing the narratives of the past, changes in the present and future can be obtained. In the concrete case study, the question is if, by opening a space where people can listen to each other traumatic and conflict memories, we can have an impact on surpassing the violent conflicts from the past

Aesthetics · Art · Competition (biology · Consonance and dissonance · Linguistics · Literature · Media studies · Narrative · Sociology · Balkan and Eastern European Studies · Balkans: History, Politics, Society · History · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Philosophy

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