Assist. Psychiatrist. Assoc. Dr. Onur Okan Demirci said, “The reason why everyone is so curious about their family tree is due to cultural influences. We have a somewhat patriarchal structure. Even the stories told when I was a child were told that my grandfather's grandfather and my grandfather's father were like this. "Learning about one's origins puts people at ease because they can say, 'My roots are tied to this place, my ancestors were such strong people,'" he said.
Emphasizing that the desire to learn family trees is a cultural situation, Assist. Assoc. Dr. Demirci said, “We are a society where proverbs come to the fore. Even when we raise children, we raise them outside the nuclear family. While telling the stories, we talk about grandfathers, grandfathers' fathers and other family elders. Our culture dates back to ancient times and we embrace ancestral culture. Because this is a situation that is ingrained in people. "Learning about one's origins puts people at ease because they can say 'my origins are tied to this place, my ancestors were such strong people,'" he said. Stating that such a situation may have arisen because they were motivated by feelings of nationalism, Demirci said, “Knowing the family tree is a comforting method in some forms of therapy. From a psychoanalytic perspective, it is one of the ways to cope with death anxiety. "People think that the further you reach into the past, the longer you will live," he said. . Assoc. Dr. Demirci said, "Seeing how far back their lineage goes back gives people the psychological feeling of immortality," and continued: Learning the family tree is seen as a method to deal with immortality by providing genetic transfer. A person wants to show his past as an example in order to say that he is a perfect person. People's desire to learn immediately shows that their curiosity has overcome them. For this He risks waiting for days. "Those who do not want to wait that long in the bank or hospital can wait for days out of curiosity."
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