How the violence and repression of the Franco dictatorship have affected the Spanish society to this day? Do the people who lived traumas repressed for Franco still latent in subsequent generations? Does the lack of grief caused by the silence and concealment of those motivated by fear of speaking and the absence of justice transactional facts generated psychopathology in the children and grandchildren of the victims? These and other issues are the writer Clara Valverde poses in his new book: Unearthing the words. Generational transmission of the political violence of the twentieth century in the Spanish State (Icaria, 2014).
The conclusions reached by the author is clear: The harmful effects of trauma generated during the Civil War and the subsequent repression of the dictatorship interfere with future generations, creating effects such as the need for enemies, the polarization of society, victimhood, vengeance and fear to denounce the power. "The generation of the grandchildren have a very specific role in the generational transmission. Are more likely to suffer disorders, is the most impacted in the subconscious generation, "Valverde said during the presentation and discussion on the work that took place last Tuesday at the Casal de Barri Pou de la Figuera, in Barcelona.
The talk was attended specialized in psychogenealogy and collaborator in the work, analyst Elena Alvarez Giron; Chilean neuropsychiatrist Jorge Barudy, founder and current director of EXIL Belgium and Spain; and anti-corruption lawyer and former prosecutor Carlos Jimenez Villarejo. "Silence, fear, sorrow suffered in Spain from July 1936 involve a difficulty of later generations to assume," said Jimenez Villarejo. Mainly, he stressed, the absence of a Commission of Truth "as a way to know the reality of violence imposed and the degree of violation of human rights occurred." "Many countries have played a key role, and have generated a degree of reconciliation," said the former prosecutor.
For example, in Canada, where the author lived closely commissions of truth and reconciliation promoted to treat the historical trauma of colonization among indigenous communities, which took some of the darkest episodes in the physical and sexual abuse on children. "To me they impressed me very much, truth commissions went from village to village, people had all the time necessary to talk. I saw I had a huge effect on the indigenous community. When I came to Spain, I thought there would be many people working in the generational trauma, but much less, " Valverde said
The writer and nurse has to base the whole theory developed internationally. "In any country has it investigated the issue, and Armenia, Cyprus ... Not here, and it is worrying," he said. The duel that froze when relatives were killed, and they had to hide in the privacy of the home or in the depths of each, not closed, it caused the trauma remain dormant.
A disgrace "product of bad luck"
"In this infernal spiral that causes abuse and torture essential-characteristics of the Franco regime with humiliation and physical and psychological annihilation of the" enemy "- and in which the victim ends up feeling guilty, the father ends up being killed responsible for the family disgrace, "he says in the prologue of the documentary work Montse Armengou, author of numerous works on Franco's dictatorship and repression. "I found people who believe-except for those who had a family or social environment politicized the misfortune that befell them was the result of bad luck or chance," explains Armengou.
"We are talking about an unresolved trauma of an entire society," said the neuropsychiatrist Jorge Barudy, also a victim of the Pinochet repression in Chile. "This book is a mini-treaty on psycho-traumatology, I have delighted reading a lot. On a personal level, I was in direct contact with the traumatization of an entire society, although in terms of quantity and quality, what happened in Spain is infinitely greater than what happened in my country. In Chile there were 8,000 missing, we are talking of over 100,000. "
"When society does everything possible not to recognize trauma, has all the numbers to continue traumatized forever, can only overcome if society allows," Barudy said. "She -the author- concludes that the past is not past. I think is more present than ever. If n, or it would be unimaginable that in late 2013 has been the expert group on disappearances in Spain and the UN special rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-repetition "argued Jiménez Villarejo. "The views of the committee in 2013 were just three countries: Nepal, Syria and Spain," he added.
"The big question I exfiscal- She held me is how we live and how they live the families of the victims where thousands remain missing, but no research has been driven beyond those carried out by entities civil society and individuals, very exceptional ". "Imposing this kind of disappearance, silence, belittling, is the worst thing that can happen to a society" concluded Barudy.
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