Transgeneracijski prenosi v druzinah koroskih Slovencev/Transgenerational Transmissions in Carinthian Slovene Families

Psychic traumata exceed the lives of immediate victims. The following article views the transmission of trauma in Carinthian Slovene families. Moving life stories from the generation of the grandparents - victims of national socialism - often open new viewpoints in afore blurred sequences in their children fs biographies. Certain concepts and figures of these life stories can also be found in the unconsciousness of the grandchildren - who on their part seek for solutions on how to deal with such historical burden. The theoretical part presents mechanisms of transgenerational transmissions. The empirical part of the article includes a specific study: Three generations of three families were interviewed using the "problem focussed method", then categorised according to the "structured qualitative content analysis" and interpreted with approaches of "scenic understanding". The generational bond between the first and the second generation is surpassingly strong. The second generation has taken over the struggle to maintain the Slovene language and culture in Carinthia from and "for" their parents. For the first and second generation it has been hard to get psychic compensation since the end of WW2. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]