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Return to Sepharad: Is it possible to heal an ancient wound? A reflection on the construction of large-group identity

  • Spanish parliament recently issued a new law offering Spanish nationality to Sephardic Jews who so desired and could demonstrate a basic knowledge of the Spanish language and culture. This law attempted to redress a five-centuries-old injustice and was expected to unleash both criticism and praise. Surprisingly, reactions in the public or the press were minimal or absent. Reasons for this are explored through a qualitative study with focus groups, which showed ideas that can be grouped into four main categories: ignorance, justice, distrust, and fear. It is hypothesized that the predominantly silent response to the new law might be due to the fact that it touches on an extremely sensible issue: the historically fragmented Spanish identity. A position of negation is constructed, to avoid deep anxieties related to the fragile core of a collective identity built from many >others< forced to the refuge of an introspection that protects them from the conviction of not fulfiling the ideal identity status, known by all but reached by none. All those >others< have mixed their bloods with the Old Christians along the centuries, possibly transmitting a profound insecurity about their personal and collective identity that might contribute to understanding current social reactions.

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Author:Miguel Angel Gonzalez-Torres, Aranzazu Fernandez-Rivas
Parent Title (English):International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 28 (No. 2, 2019), pp. 095-103.
Document Type:Articles
Language:English
Year of first Publication:2019
Release Date:2020/11/03
Format:PDF-scan upon request / PDF-Scan auf Anfrage
IdNo:Gonzalez-Torres_M_A_Fernandez-Rivas_A_2019
Erich Fromm's Library and Erich Fromm Archive:Articles / Artikel
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