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Ryan, Paul, Taffler, Richard J. and Branigan, Clare (2023) Some psychoanalytic reflections on the Irish real estate bubble. International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies, 20 (4). pp. 666-681. doi:10.1002/aps.1804 ISSN 1556-9187.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1002/aps.1804
Abstract
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.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor H Social Sciences > HM Sociology |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Residential real estate -- Ireland, Housing -- Prices -- Ireland, Financial crises -- Ireland, Generational trauma -- Ireland | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies | ||||||||
Publisher: | Wiley | ||||||||
ISSN: | 1556-9187 | ||||||||
Official Date: | December 2023 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 20 | ||||||||
Number: | 4 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 666-681 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1002/aps.1804 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 14 March 2023 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 9 June 2023 | ||||||||
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