Abstract

JAQUES, Ana Augusta Brito. The war and traumatic neurosis: the subject's responses to barbarism. Trivium [online]. 2012, vol.4, n.1, pp.10-24. ISSN 2176-4891.

In a state of war, the breaking of law results in the trivialization of death and violence towards the other, and this affects the limits of actions that strengthen or destroy bonds among peoples. In such scenery, the traumatic experience invades the psyche submerging the subject into trauma, neurosis, leaving no conditions for symbolization; the subject, then, becomes a hostage of the compulsive repetition of a negative happening. Because of the devastating anguish of the psyche, the analysis of neurotized subjects is an urgent necessity. In this sense, psychoanalysis provides a distinct opportunity for listening, marked by the presence of the ethics of the subject of the unconsciousness.

Keywords : Trauma; War neurosis; Sexual drive; Death drive.

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