This paper aims to examine how the socio-political context influences mourning by focusing on Turkey’s political history and contemporary context. The dynamics of experienced and transferred trauma, dread, aggression, and rage will be explored by integrating the perspectives of Kohut’s Psychoanalytic Self Psychology and Intersubjective Psychoanalysis with other psychoanalytic explanations of mourning. We focus on the social dynamics that transform grief into continuous trauma that is disavowed, repeated, and intensified by political leaders. We specifically address the current context using recent case examples illustrating the experiences of older generations affected by human-made disasters. We discuss the possibilities of recovery from this impact by emphasizing creative solidarity and identification with the forward-edge striving of idealized wounded selves.