Cure ou répétition du trauma ?

Rosenblum, Rachel

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“…Karl’s fate echoes a story I have discussed elsewhere, that of a Swiss orphan by the name of Bruno (Rosenblum, 2001b, 2003, 2005a, 2007). Bruno changes identities and become famous.…”

Section: Trauma As Event: Surviving the Tale Of Violencementioning

confidence: 71%

“…Some of the most moving narratives of the Shoah are either forgeries (such as Wilkomirski’s [1995] book Fragments ) or works of fiction misread as testimony (such as Zvi Kolitz’s [1998] book Rakover Addresses God ). Those best qualified to narrate the traumatic experience often turn out to be people who lived it in imagination only (Rosenblum, 2001b, 2003, 2007). In contrast, texts written by actual witnesses of the Shoah tend to be distanced, devoid of dramatization.…”

Section: The Dangers Of Tellingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A child attends the gory execution of his father and simultaneously loses mother and sister. By its massive dimension, this is the type of trauma which may trigger what I have called ‘a screen self ’, a change of identity (Rosenblum, 2001b, 2005a, 2005b, 2007). Karl is a Jewish child who survived the camps and chose to become an American citizen with no origin and no accent.…”

Section: Trauma As Event: Surviving the Tale Of Violencementioning

confidence: 99%

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Postponing trauma: The dangers of telling

Rosenblum

2009

The International Journal of Psychoanalysis

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Surviving a major historical trauma has consequences that are difficult to live with. Survivors who remain silent are often condemned to a desiccated existence, a dried-out life, a death in life. Survivors who speak out run an even greater risk. Telling their ghastly tale may trigger somatic consequences, psychotic episodes, or even suicide. As to the psychoanalytic cure, the free association it requires carries its own danger: negative therapeutic reaction in sometimes extreme forms. Avoidance of horror may turn into avoidance of life itself. Awful as it may seem, this avoidance of life may represent a victory over a menacing chaos. Should we as analysts accept the risk of endangering such a victory, no matter how unsatisfactory? The psychoanalytical injunction to speak out may trigger an upsurge of shame and terror. Is subjectivation always possible? This paper is about what happens when denial and splitting strategies are suspended, when 'crypts' are opened. Is there an analytic 'poros' allowing for a controlled return of affects? Is there a therapeutic solution to the problem of telling a wreckage without being caught in it? The dangers of 'telling' will be discussed in regard to new analytic strategies and new interpretive registers. When the 'silent psychic sharing' proves insufficient, some analysts go so far as to take part in the shame, share the grief, 'lend their own psyche', become a 'double' of the analysand, accept the existence of 'sanctuaries'. To what effect?

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“…Karl’s fate echoes a story I have discussed elsewhere, that of a Swiss orphan by the name of Bruno (Rosenblum, 2001b, 2003, 2005a, 2007). Bruno changes identities and become famous.…”

Section: Trauma As Event: Surviving the Tale Of Violencementioning

confidence: 71%

Section: The Dangers Of Tellingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Trauma As Event: Surviving the Tale Of Violencementioning

confidence: 99%

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Postponing trauma: The dangers of telling

Rosenblum

2009

The International Journal of Psychoanalysis

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“…It is true that numerous individual case studies, both historical and current, are available that illustrate the categories of negative therapeutic reaction (intense transference feelings, malignant regression, particularly to psychosis, and self-destructive acting out) mentioned by Saks and Golshan (e.g., Aulagnier 1979; Gabbard 1977; Freud 1923; Pontalis 2014; Rosenblum 2005); Sandell et al 2000; Winnicott 1954, 1967). Moreover, we know that countertransference complications must also be counted as potential negative side-effects of psychoanalytic treatment.…”

Section: What Does the Patient Understand?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Consenting and Assenting to Psychoanalytic Work

Furlong¹

2020

J Am Psychoanal Assoc

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The moment is opportune for a renewed look at what we understand about patient consent to treatment. Until recently, little reference to informed consent could be found in the literature, as though it has never been a preoccupation for psychoanalytic practitioners. Yet several post-Freudian authors offer reasons to suppose the risk of misunderstandings about consent. In fact, the very discovery of transference, replete with unrequited infantile wishes, implies that at some level, at some moment, in every psychoanalytic treatment there will be moments when “consent” will to some extent vacillate. A distinction, justifiable on etymological and intersubjective grounds, is made between patients’ consent as a cognitive, somewhat passive, acceptance and patients’ assent as an arduous, conflicted, partial disagreement with the symbolically limiting details of analytic work. It is in the discovery and working through of unexpected unconscious responses to aspects of the analytic setting and to the analyst that patients become “informed” of the unique risks to their psychic equilibrium the process poses, as well as its benefits. Instead of a static and unitary contractual event, informed consent in psychoanalysis is more properly conceived as a multilayered, repetitively posed, and necessarily ambivalent process of good-enough assenting over time.

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Wege und Irrwege unserer Sprachen im psychoanalytischen Raum

Borbély¹

2013

Zeitschrift für psychoanalytische Theorie und Praxis

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Cure ou répétition du trauma ?

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Postponing trauma: The dangers of telling

Postponing trauma: The dangers of telling

Consenting and Assenting to Psychoanalytic Work

Wege und Irrwege unserer Sprachen im psychoanalytischen Raum

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