Echoes in the Bone and Blood: Adlerian Approaches to Cultural Postmemories
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract: The concept of blood memory is deeply rooted in diverse cultures. It embodies the idea that memories and experiences can be inherited across generations through biological, cultural, or spiritual means. Originating from Dr. Momaday’s coinage of the term in House Made of Dawn , blood memory finds resonance in Carl Jung’s collective unconscious and Alfred Adler’s emphasis on early life observations of one’s environment, including live interactions and family or cultural mythology, shaping lifestyle. Marianne Hirsch’s concept of postmemory illuminates how the second generation inherits profound connections to ancestral traumas, such as the Holocaust, which shape their identities. This article explores the intersections of blood memory, postmemory, and epigenetics in memory formation. Drawing from personal stories from Indigenous Canadian and Jewish authors and borrowing from neuroscience, it examines the intergenerational inheritance of memories. The significance of blood memory transcends linear understandings of memory and time, challenging traditional notions of early recollections. While scientific explanations of the transfer of individual episodic memories remain elusive, cultural wisdom offers insights into the lived experiences and phenomenological realities of memory transmission. As psychologists and researchers, embracing diverse perspectives and cultural narratives is imperative to understanding the complexities of memory inheritance and its implications for cultural identity, movement, and lifestyle formation.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.004 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.010 | 0.073 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.009 | 0.010 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".