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The self, suspended in collective trauma. Symbolic analysis with victims of childhood trauma caused by state terrorism

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ID8984690
AutoresKarin Fleischer (0000-0003-4719-9822, Buenos Aires Argentina, autor de correspondencia)
Año2022
Volumen67
Número1
Páginas130-144
Fecha de publicación2022-02-01
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Analytical Psychology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0021-8774 • E-ISSN: 1465-5922
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/1468-5922.12754
PMID35417580
OpenAlexW4224064385
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas16

This paper explores the consequences of a collective trauma on the individual psyche. The author aims to show the difficulties emerging in the process of working through an early trauma when the personal wound is merged with a family and cultural trauma. Referencing clinical dream material, the author also highlights the importance of including the objective and the subjective levels of analysis, because if the clinical work is solely focused upon the intrapsychic subjective dimension, this may tend to perpetuate the traumatic cycle based on the original denial. This process requires from the analyst sensitivity and receptivity to accept the reality of the collective trauma with all its overwhelming affects, without losing the capacity for imagination; thus, the horror of the non-representable may gradually find - within the analytic dyad - a symbolic way to be retrieved, metabolized, and elaborated

Ethnology · Humanities · Psyche · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics · Philosophy · Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications · Social Psychology

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