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| Author(s): |
Marina de Andrade Vahle
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Psicologia (IP/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2012-08-17 |
| Examining board members: |
Daniel Kupermann;
Eduardo Leal Cunha;
Luiz Claudio Mendonca Figueiredo
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| Advisor: | Daniel Kupermann |
| Abstract | |
Our proposal is to perform a theoretical investigation regarding the concept of trauma in Freuds work, as well as the set of problems it responds to. We aimed to research if the theory of trauma would have in fact disappeared in the period between the abandon of the seduction theory and the constructs of 1920, as defended by some authors in the psychoanalytic literature. Our hypothesis is that the notion of trauma would have continued to sustain the Freudian theory of psychic suffering, not only through sporadic appearances of this concept during this period, but also, implicitly, by means of the set of problems related to it as the etiology of neurosis and of the major clinical cases of Freud: Dora, Rat Man and Wolf Man. Thus, primarily we searched for the notion of trauma and its ramifications throughout the wok and, afterwards, we performed a study of these three clinical cases, looking up for possible traumatic configurations in the history of their protagonists. We came to the understanding that Freud does not always treat the same kind of trauma throughout his writings: the term remains, but with different meanings. There would be, therefore, implicit subtypes of trauma in the Freudian discourse trauma by rupture, trauma as lack of mediation between fantasy and reality and, yet, clues to think of a trauma as a narcissistic fault. From these subtypes, we approached the clinical consequences of the reinterpretation of this concept, from the differential diagnosis viewpoint. Next, we pointed out how the eminently economic aspect that permeates the category of trauma influenced in Freuds view about the devices used by the analyst in the clinic. Following the ramifications, as well as the clinical scope of the notion of trauma, consists in a task that may offer us theoretical tools for the understanding of the types of traumatic constellations underlying the intolerable suffering of those who look for the psychoanalytic clinic (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 10/03221-0 - The notion of trauma in Freud: destinations and ramifications |
| Grantee: | Marina de Andrade Vahle |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |