Rom J Psychoanal 2023, 16(2):74-93
DOI: 10.26336/rjp-2023-0016

Abstract: Based on the novel “Fractured Soul” by Akira Mizubayashi (2019) which relates the loss of a father for a young child and the destruction of this father’s violin, the author reflects on the question of mourning and trauma from the perspective of symbolic repair of lost origins and unconscious transgenerational mandates. The child became a violin maker and spent his entire life trying to restore his father’s broken violin. From one fractured soul to another, from the soul of the violin to the soul of the child... a dialectic that is both painful and deeply moving.


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