Abstract

MINERBO, Marion. Trauma and symbolization: a dialogue with a young colleague. J. psicanal. [online]. 2015, vol.48, n.88, pp. 237-254. ISSN 0103-5835.

Using a dialogue format, the author presents the concept of trauma as an event that blocks the process of symbolization at some point. This event may be cumulative, or a effect of "scare" - a condition in which the subject could not anticipate danger in order to defend himself. The author distinguishes two qualitatively different levels in this process: the primary and the secondary symbolization. She develops the idea that, in the primary bond, a traumatic situation does not generate the necessary libido to promote psychic connections, or the necessary libido for the positive investment of the symbolizing function; otherwise, the traumatic situation forces the developing psyche to act in a defensive, evacuant mode (a nonsymbolizing mode). In the end of this paper, the author brings two clinical situations that illustrate two different ways of bringing back the traumatic event in analysis, as well as the resumption of the symbolization process in the core of a transference situation.

Keywords : trauma; symbolization; return of the repressed; return of the splitting.

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