Projective Identification and Systematic Child Degradation: A Case Study on Transgenerational Trauma and Institutional Abuse in Austrian Care Homes

This publication is not a conventional biography, but a psychological and historical documentation of transgenerational trauma. It analyzes the "unconscious rejection" by a mother who remained in an infantile survival mode for 80 years, and how this led to the projective identification of the child as a "burden" or "enemy."

The document details how Austrian care homes in the 20th century systematically exploited these family dynamics through:

• Black Pedagogy (Schwarze Pädagogik): Methods designed to break the child's will.

• Institutional Violence: Systematic degradation, including confinement in cellars (Kellereinsperrungen).

• Systematic Devaluation: How the state apparatus continued the parental rejection, leading to a complete loss of identity for the victims.

This record serves the purpose of documentation and reappraisal (Aufarbeitung) of human rights violations in the context of institutional upbringing.