Death Masks

Kardiner and Ferenczi on Psychic Trauma

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ID4369732
AuthorsRuth Leys (0000-0002-1629-2832, corresponding author)
Year1996
Volume53
Pages44-73
Publication date1996-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueRepresentations (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0734-6018 • E-ISSN: 1533-855X
PublisherUniversity of California Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1525/rep.1996.53.1.99p0315j
OpenAlexW4250851110
LanguageEN
Citations received14
References cited17

Ifind myselffor a moment in the interesting position of not knowing whether what I have to say should be regarded as something long familiar and obvious or as something entirely new and puzzling. But I am inclined to think the latter. I have at last been struck by the fact that the ego of a person whom we know as a patient in analysis must, dozens of years earlier, when it was young, have behaved in a remarkable manner in certain particular situations of pressure. We can assign in general and somewhat vague terms the conditions under which this comes about, by saying that it occurs under the inf lence of a psychical trauma. -Freud, Splitting of the Ego in the Process of Defence (1940)3

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