Sublimation as a Tool for Overcoming Childhood Trauma: A Comparative Analysis of Jean Genet and Herta Brigitte Bertel

his analytical paper explores the psychological concept of sublimation as a tool for overcoming profound childhood trauma, using a comparative biographical approach. It contrasts the life of the French author Jean Genet (1910–1986), who transformed his experiences of displacement and incarceration into world-class literature (Sublimation), with the life of Herta Brigitte Bertel (1943–2024), whose trauma as a "Verdingkind" (contract child) in rural Austria led to psychological rigidity and the transgenerational transmission of trauma (Projective Identification).Mission Statement: This work is part of the "Archive Peter Siegfried Krug." It serves the documentation and reappraisal of institutional abuse and its long-term effects.