Lost stories. Civic-military dictatorship, War of Malvinas and intergenerational transmission

Abstract

This text aims to explore the effects of the civic–military dictatorship occured in Argentina between 1976 and 1983 from the perspective of the intergenerational transmission of the memory focusing mainly in an event: the War of Malvinas. From the postulates of Hassoun (1994) on the effects of the social shocks in different generations and the approximations of Feierstein (2012) on the civic–military dictatorship, understood as a genocide. Our goal will be to go deeply and to extend debate, both clinical and sociological, on the consequences that the war of Malvinas had either directly or inderectly on affected groups. In the first part we open the investigation of the topic and introduce the concepts that we deploy in it, and in the end, we consider the War of Malvinas ex-soldiers children drawing some conclusions that become detached of comparing our theoretical position with the information collected. The aim is to come closer to some hypothesis that could allow us to think about possible ways of elaboration of this type of events.