Goren Elizabeth
New York University, USA.
Am J Psychoanal. 2007 Mar;67(1):37-52. doi: 10.1057/palgrave.ajp.3350013.
The terrorist nature of the attacks on September 11th, the number of deaths on American soil and the direct involvement of society as virtual eyewitnesses of the events of that day had a traumatizing impact on the cultural consciousness. The interpersonal, socio-cultural manifestations of traumatic grief are explored through an analysis of the creation and transformation of its national heroes, the New York City firefighters, in the public mind over time. Mechanisms of identification, dissociation and splitting were manifested through the erection of physical and social boundaries around 9/11, which allowed for idealization at a safe distance followed by de-cathexis when the collective sought to abort the mourning process and overcome the pain and helplessness of traumatic grief by going to war.
9·11 袭击事件的恐怖性质、美国本土的死亡人数以及全社会作为当日事件的实际目击者的直接卷入，对文化意识产生了创伤性影响。通过分析纽约市消防员这一民族英雄群体在公众心目中随时间的塑造与转变，探讨创伤性悲痛的人际及社会文化表现形式。认同、解离和分裂机制通过围绕9·11建立的物理和社会边界得以体现，这使得在安全距离外进行理想化成为可能，随后当集体试图中止哀悼过程并通过发动战争来克服创伤性悲痛的痛苦与无助时，便出现了情感撤离。
