ABSTRACT
This chapter describes psychological factor that influences the internal world of a child immigrant's or refugee's internal world. Memories of infants' own experiences in wars, war-like situations, and during forced migrations are not available to them when they are grown-up. The way that parents perceive and treat the infant during these traumatic conditions; the way they transmit their fear, anxiety, and other emotions to him; and the images they "put in" the infant's developing self-representation may casue the infant to evolve as a "living statue". Parents may unconsciously "deposit" their traumatized self- and object images related to dislocation into the developing self-representation of their child and give him different tasks to deal with such images. Depositing is closely related to identification in childhood, but it is in some ways significantly different from identification. In identification, the child is the primary active partner in taking-in and assimilating an adult's images and owning that person's ego and superego functions.
