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CULTURE & PSYCHOLOGY
Volume 21, Issue 1, Pages 59-80Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/1354067X15568979
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Family secrets; cultural psychology; semiotics; psychoanalysis and culture; Bion
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In mainstream psychology, family secrets are usually discussed in terms of intra-psychological processes. However, the sense making of the family, which is a multilayered system, is mediated through culture. Hence, a complementary intersubjective perspective is inevitable for understanding secrecy formation. Merging psychoanalytic ideas with cultural-semiotic analysis, the current paper explores the relationships between three complementary levels of secrecy formation: the macro-level of cultural mediation, the mesoscopic-level of family dynamics, and the micro-level of intra-psychological processes. This perspective is developed and illustrated through an in-depth reading of Amir Gutfreund's novel, Our Holocaust.
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