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The passion of the country:

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The passion of the country:

[Article]

bearing the burdens of traumatic histories, personal and collective

Amanda Dowd

Leiden

Brill

Jonathan Lear, in Radical hope: Ethics in the face of cultural devastation, movingly writes: 'We seem to be aware of a shared vulnerability that we cannot quite name ... It is as though, without our insistence that our outlook is correct, the outlook itself might collapse'. It is this 'vulnerability' and 'anxiety of collapse' that has led to what has been called in Australia the 'cult of forgetfulness' and the 'terror of history' which refers to the silence that surrounded the Stolen Generations and still surrounds the psychic distress of our indigenous first peoples. This article explores Lear's statement in terms of the psychic pain of a culture founded upon waves of migration and traumatic dispossession to think about the question 'What does it mean to live here?' And what can that teach us about the formation of identity and cultural identity? Jonathan Lear, in Radical hope: Ethics in the face of cultural devastation, movingly writes: 'We seem to be aware of a shared vulnerability that we cannot quite name ... It is as though, without our insistence that our outlook is correct, the outlook itself might collapse'. It is this 'vulnerability' and 'anxiety of collapse' that has led to what has been called in Australia the 'cult of forgetfulness' and the 'terror of history' which refers to the silence that surrounded the Stolen Generations and still surrounds the psychic distress of our indigenous first peoples. This article explores Lear's statement in terms of the psychic pain of a culture founded upon waves of migration and traumatic dispossession to think about the question 'What does it mean to live here?' And what can that teach us about the formation of identity and cultural identity?

2010

59-70

International Journal of Jungian Studies

2/1

1940-9060

area of faith,

colonization,

cultural complex,

cultural devastation,

identity

trauma,

Amanda Dowd

10.1080/19409050903498378

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