History, Cultures, Politics, and Individuation

ABSTRACT

Connecting the personal and the cultural, these pages offer a few impressions of the author’s personal immigration narrative. Fleeing an archetypal oppression can lead to a relationship with the archetype of the oppressor. Here, the author takes the reader on her quest for the middle path, the transcendent, the self. Through her mother’s experiences as a young Jewish woman in France in WWII, the trauma passed down to the author, and her journey from being hidden to being seen, she mends the broken pieces of her psyche.

KEY WORDS:

• France
• Hawaiʻi
• historical trauma
• Holocaust
• immigration
• individuation
• Kintsugi
• mother
• privilege

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Dominique Lambert-Blum

Dominique Lambert-Blum, MA, PsyD, is an advanced candidate at the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco where she serves on the Diversity and Inclusivity Committee. She works for underserved patients suffering from chronic mental illness as part of a dedicated team of psychiatrists, psychotherapists, and nurses at the Fairmont Hospital in San Leandro, California. There she runs groups, mostly Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) groups, and coordinates the training program which involves teaching with an emphasis on diversity and inclusivity, providing case presentations, and supervising interns. She maintains a private practice in Berkeley, California.