The myth of Tantalus and his descendents as a pattern of refuge and forgetting as well as of solution from the circle of psychic cruelties. How violence makes children and grandchildren sick as well and how you can escape from that

The father kills his son, the husband rapes his wife and sacrifices his daughter, the woman murders the man and the son takes revenge for his father. Like an ancient criminalstory the myth of Tantalus tells how a family surrenders to violence over generations. The last of the Tantalids finds the exit: by confronting himself with his own guilt and the so caused suffering, he frees himself and his family from the eternal repetition of these frightening scenes.

Millions were tortured, raped, driven away and murdered, children lost their parents and parents their child. Isn’t ist crazy to think that the wars of the 20th century left no marks in our souls? The frightening pictures were forgotten but the fears didn‘t disappear but come back to surface in the psychic disturbances of the children and grandchildren. In our hearts we are still disturbed by the undissolved fears of the past.

But the myth of the Tantalids is not only a pattern for the causes of psychic pain but also for the solutions: Like the last Tantalids the descendents of the murderers and the victims could be freed from fear, if they stop forgetting and confront themselves with the terror in their hearts. Only when the shadows of his hurt predecessors are calmed will a man be free from fear and master his fate.

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