Communitarian Resilience Confronting with Personal and Social Historical Ruptures

Our research is focused on the topic of traumatic identity in confrontation with personal and social historical ruptures, imposed by deportation in the communist period. We have realised and analysed 28 oral history interviews (1590 pages of transcript manuscripts) using a content analysis combined with values scale realized by M. Rokeach. The outcomes suggest the strength of individuals for reconfiguring in a positive way their own identities, activating communitarian resilience. The mechanism of reconstruction self-identity expresses the predominance of the values which would integrate in the register of “to be”, to the detriment of the “to have” values. Although the discourses reveal a world gravely and sometimes irremediably broken up, the authors of the discourses construct a narration which read through the axiological register is predominantly serene just because these value categories of “to be” are predominantly invoked.