ABSTRACT
Chapter 8 deals with two forms of memory that describe the relationship between generations that have directly or through transmission experienced personal, collective and cultural trauma. In order to allow space not only for conscious transmission but also imaginative investment, projection and creation, the chapter uses both the concepts of “postmemory” and “generational haunting” in order to understand the displacement and even evacuation of one’s memories by those of ancestors. This investigation breaks with hitherto analyses that dealt exclusively with child analysis and extends the examination to the generation that transmits ghostly items.
