Abstract

MELLO, Renata  and  HERZOG, Regina. Trauma, cleavage and numbness: a ferenczian perspective. Arq. bras. psicol. [online]. 2009, vol.61, n.3, pp. 68-74. ISSN 1809-5267.

Currently in psychoanalytic clinic we can observe patients, who despite of not showing psychological suffering, are unable to feel pleasure or displeasure with daily experiences. It can be observed that this mode of subjectivation reports to a numbness within himself and others, which implicates in losing the possibility of feeling. The relation between trauma and numbness is discussed through the cleavage solution in Ferenczi's work. It is searched through these concepts a refinement of the clinical sensibility necessary to deal with the psychological processes under the impact of traumatic registration

Keywords : Trauma; Cleavage; Numbness; Psychoanalytic clinic; Sándor Ferenczi.

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