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 interwoven in the fabric of the social order, rendering state and parastatal organizations and their leaders powerless. The concept of intergenerational transmission of trauma is key to our analysis. We show how the Irish obsession with owning property and land is a psychic attempt to transcend the traumatic past to “inhabit” an idealized pre-colonial land leading to emergent feelings of empowerment, euphoria and omnipotence. We also explain why the Irish real estate bubble is being re-enacted so soon. The potential to enhance interpretation through insights from literature, drama, and poetry is illustrated.

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对爱尔兰房地产泡沫的一些精神分析反思

我们利用最近破坏性的爱尔兰住宅房地产泡沫及其可怕的经济和社会后果来探讨被压抑的祖先苦难在推动制度和更广泛的社会对当代事件的反应中的作用。我们展示了痛苦的过去如何与社会秩序的结构交织在一起，使国家和半官方组织及其领导人变得无能为力。创伤代际传播的概念是我们分析的关键。我们展示了爱尔兰人对拥有财产和土地的痴迷是如何超越痛苦的过去，“居住”理想化的前殖民土地，从而产生赋权、欣快和无所不能的感觉的一种精神尝试。我们还解释了为什么爱尔兰房地产泡沫很快就会重演。阐释了通过文学、戏剧和诗歌的见解来增强解释的潜力。