Abstract

SCHOR, Daniel. The unhistoricizing effect of the trauma: an essay about the dimensions of psychic temporality. Rev. bras. psicanál [online]. 2017, vol.51, n.3, pp.179-194. ISSN 0486-641X.

In this paper, our purpose is to examine vital aspects of the ways that memories of traumatic experiences may populate the subjective life and to study the ways they appear in the psychoanalytic situation as well. We start from the fundamental distinction between the model of repression and the model of psychic cleavage. This distinction is particularly based on our readings of Freud's and Winnicott's works. We attempt to emphasize some difficulties that may be faced by the subject when he/she treats his/her own experiences as an event (i.e., an experience that can be meaningful and placed as a part of a personal history). We attempt to point out, as one of the most important consequences of this situation, the loss of the subject's ability of self-perception as the protagonist of his/her history.

Keywords : psychic trauma; temporality; experience; symbolization object; transitionality.

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