ABSTRACT
It has been stated repeatedly that, in one way or another, the children of survivors tend to be preoccupied with the suffering of their parents. To many people’s surprise and pain, children who were often conceived in order to reaffirm life, have shown signs that the past suffering of their parents plays an important part in their own existence, and that their concern with the horrible events preceding their own birth is expressed by a tendency to repeat the suffering themselves. While they seemed at times confused, their boundaries conformed to their own boundaries and to those of their internalized objects; however, they did not seem to be living their own lives during the psychotic episodes. Ever since Freud abandoned his theory attributing the cause of hysteria to childhood seduction, there has been a tendency among psycho analysts to consider events in outer reality as being the concern of other disciplines.
