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After the collapse of the Soviet Union as an enormous imbricated system of ideologies that entailed a particular socio-cultural structure, psychic, cultural, and social life in Georgia experienced considerable changes. These touched on the basic social structure, the ties between social classes and generations. The individual loss of symbolic place, the break in cultural and paternal transmission concerned the new “post-Soviet” generation. The real privation of objects of desire, even of objects of need, as well as the sudden undesired disappearance of Soviet ideals were a blow to the symbolic markers in a society that was always in the process of constructing itself. One sees the repeated traumatic experience of loss repeated in the political field of the Soviet collapse.