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A Psycho-Semiotic Study of the Adaptation of Salvadoran Families to Canada

A Psycho-Semiotic Study of the Adaptation of Salvadoran Families to Canada The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 60, No. 3, 2000 A PSYCHO-SEMIOTIC STUDY OF THE ADAPTATION OF SALVADORAN FAMILIES TO CANADA Jose ´ phine Astrid Quallenberg INTRODUCTION: CULTURE, PSYCHOANALYSIS AND PSYCHOSEMIOTICS The most common and deepest space within which we think about us is called culture. Culture is the way people express their patterns of thought, their phantasies, their dreams and their behaviour, their values, beliefs, po- litical, economical and religious, their rules of conduct. Culture is the space where we pass on from one generation to the next, through language, our psychic and social heritage. For Davidson (1988) and Harrington (1993), psychoanalysis is part of culture and offers us paths to understand our psy- che and our unconscious. Psychoanalysis and anthropology have in common the fact that they attempt to analyze common ground cultural phenomena such as social and psychic structures. Human beings link to each other through language and unconscious structures (Calogeras & Alston, 1980). In this article I apply psychoanalysis to understand culture and migration, refugee adaptation through a new society, a new culture: Salvadoran fami- lies’ adaptation to Canada. To that effect, 1. The psychosemiotics method will be used through the analysis of dif- ferent http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The American Journal of Psychoanalysis Springer Journals

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Springer Journals
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Copyright © 2000 by Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis
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Psychology; Clinical Psychology; Psychotherapy; Psychoanalysis
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0002-9548
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1573-6741
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The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 60, No. 3, 2000 A PSYCHO-SEMIOTIC STUDY OF THE ADAPTATION OF SALVADORAN FAMILIES TO CANADA Jose ´ phine Astrid Quallenberg INTRODUCTION: CULTURE, PSYCHOANALYSIS AND PSYCHOSEMIOTICS The most common and deepest space within which we think about us is called culture. Culture is the way people express their patterns of thought, their phantasies, their dreams and their behaviour, their values, beliefs, po- litical, economical and religious, their rules of conduct. Culture is the space where we pass on from one generation to the next, through language, our psychic and social heritage. For Davidson (1988) and Harrington (1993), psychoanalysis is part of culture and offers us paths to understand our psy- che and our unconscious. Psychoanalysis and anthropology have in common the fact that they attempt to analyze common ground cultural phenomena such as social and psychic structures. Human beings link to each other through language and unconscious structures (Calogeras & Alston, 1980). In this article I apply psychoanalysis to understand culture and migration, refugee adaptation through a new society, a new culture: Salvadoran fami- lies’ adaptation to Canada. To that effect, 1. The psychosemiotics method will be used through the analysis of dif- ferent

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