In this study, we explore the influence of the pandemic on the intergenerational dialogue. Our thesis is that the images of totally dependent people in intensive care units wrestling with death remind us of earliest experiences in the first year of life. The “embodied memories” of the ubiquitous basic human experience of existential dependence and helplessness remain in the unconscious for a lifetime and are reactivated in situations of diffuse life threat and death. In order not to be flooded by the enacted death anxieties, relatively primitive defense mechanisms such as denial, splitting, omnipotent negation, and projection, may be mobilized. It takes a great psychic effort to recognize such regressive mental processes and to counteract them in order to deal constructively with the pandemic on a mature mental level. The pandemic thus absorbs—consciously and unconsciously—a large part of our psychic energies. This also may have an impact on the empathic dialog between adults and adolescents. We discuss how the pandemic puts a particularly heavy burden on the demanding and disturbance-prone developmental and identity formation processes of adolescence. In addition, there is a danger that the family and nonfamily adult caregivers will not be able to provide the adolescent with enough understanding and support for this challenge, as they themselves are hindered and limited in their ability to empathize by the constant confrontation with unbearable affects and threats during the pandemic. This makes it more difficult for parents and caregivers to deal with ambivalences, which always characterize the dialog between generations. Thus, the pandemic increases the likelihood that, especially for those growing up who have already felt the downside of life in childhood, their adolescence will now become a “second hazard” rather than a second chance.

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大流行是一种发展风险

在这项研究中，我们探讨了大流行对代际对话的影响。我们的论点是，重症监护室中完全依赖的人与死亡搏斗的形象让我们想起了生命第一年的最早经历。无处不在的人类生存依赖和无助的基本体验的“具身记忆”终生留在潜意识中，并在弥散的生命威胁和死亡的情况下重新激活。为了不被已形成的死亡焦虑所淹没，可能会调动相对原始的防御机制，如否认、分裂、全能否定和投射。认识到这种倒退的心理过程并抵消它们，以便在成熟的心理水平上建设性地应对流行病，需要付出巨大的心理努力。因此，大流行有意识地和无意识地吸收了我们的大部分精神能量。这也可能对成人和青少年之间的移情对话产生影响。我们讨论了大流行如何给青春期要求高且容易受到干扰的发展和身份形成过程带来特别沉重的负担。此外，家庭和非家庭成年照料者可能无法为青少年提供足够的理解和支持来应对这一挑战，因为他们自己因不断面对难以忍受的影响而受到阻碍和同情的能力有限。和大流行期间的威胁。这使得父母和照料者更难处理矛盾心理，而这种矛盾心理始终是代际对话的特征。因此，“第二次危险”而不是第二次机会。