Some psychoanalytic reflections on the Irish real estate bubble

We use the recent destructive Irish residential real estate bubble and its parlous economic and social consequences to explore the role of repressed ancestral suffering in driving institutional and broader societal responses to contemporary events. We demonstrate how a traumatic past can become inte...

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Published in:International journal of applied psychoanalytic studies 2023-12, Vol.20 (4), p.666-681
Main Authors: Ryan, Paul, Taffler, Richard J., Branigan, Clare
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ancestral ghosts
chosen trauma
compulsion to repeat
great Irish famine
large group identity
social unconscious
socio‐economic crisis
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