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where is culture stored?

In contrast, focusing on cultural traumas is less familiar and is less articulated in our psychoanalytic clinical theories, supervision, and practice in general but common to the publications just noted. In particular, what is less focused on is an acknowledgment and articulation of the layer within the psyche that contains and secrets crimes of humanity and their history. (642)The three contributions to this insufficiency are as follows: (a) Psychoanalysts still maintain individual and institutional identifications with the silence established and promulgated by the founders of psychoanalysis; (b) psychoanalytic institutions maintain defenses against embracing these factors—the defenses include dissociation and projective identification, and (c) it is difficult to work clinically with cultural trauma because of the first two factors just summarized and because most cultures continue to perpetrate and condone crimes against humanity. (653)--> is it really a container? the dimensions of this are interesting to me - a container would have weight - you carry it. but a container also would need to be put somewhere. if we assume the mind/memory/whatever is finite, then what does the container store at the cost of something else? does the container permanently alter the space or is it cleanly disposable?

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