Invisible loyalties
we all carry within ourselves
   
 
 
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I've met the term "invisible loyalties" in the book with the same title written by the American psychologist of Hungarian descent Ivan Boszormenyi-Nagy. I have been lead to it by another book, "Oh, meine Ahnen! Wie das Leben unserer Vorfahren in uns wiederkehrt", written by a student of his, Anne Ancelin-Schützenberger, who is also researching on the field of the transgenerational approach in psychology.
1945
(two pages)

On page 35 of the German edition (she has written her book in French, with the title "Aie, mes aieux!")* she makes the remark: "Was mir auffällt ist - ... -, dass die Therapeuten, die die transgenerationale Richtung begründeten, alle aus Osteuropa oder aus Zentraleuropa stammen." She doesn't seem to have an answer to this and I can think and speak only about the region I know, about the unspeakable injustice inflicted upon my part of the world with the Trianon Treaty at the end of WW1, where the seeds of evil have been strewn for the region, for generations to come. As an illustration to this, and to what the transgenerational approach is about, see what Hungarian school boys are spending their time with, instead of enjoying their young lives: here. Some 87 years after events which have been lived by their great grandparents...

To those of you who want to understand the loud voices still coming from Eastern Europe: Those who shout the loudest are those who sit in the houses and on the land of those whom they have expelled; they are so loud in order to convince not only the world but also their own selves that things are right. The soft voices come from those who, like myself here, think that the truth has to be at least spoken out, even if the events are irreversible.

The little girl on the picture is my grandma and, as far as I can predict, the pages to come will mirror the world she was living in. They are dedicated to this brave woman, out of my both visible and invisible loyalty to her.