Abstract
This paper presents the results and analysis of research on transgenerational transmission of collective trauma conducted with grandchildren of victims of the Chilean dictatorship. This qualitative study sought to investigate the processes of subjectivation of the memory of collective trauma by the third generation. The textual material, obtained by interviews, was interpreted using critical discourse analysis. Subjectivation of the memory of collective trauma occurs within an ideological interpellation, in which the subject acquires a position of ethical-political responsibility regarding the support of their grandparents’ memory, a process that implies the organization of a representational covering regarding the gaps that the transgenerational transmission of trauma entails.
Keywords:
collective trauma; transgenerationality; third generation; memory; subjectivation