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The forgotten Trauma. Content and introduction TFT
2017
The forgotten trauma is primarily addressed to those who are preparing to practice as psychoanalysts or psychotherapists and to those who are looking for an answer to the crisis of psychoanalysis highlighted by two phenomena: the failure of the psychoanalytic Institution in rethinking a training which has been said to paralyze the mind; and the fragmentation of psychoanalysis in many currents leading to the dissolution of its identity. The Authors maintain that it is necessary to inquire if the premises of these two phenomena are already present in Freud’s theory and in what he considered as his main discovery: the formulation, in 1897, of the Oedipus complex which he employed as the interpretative paradigm of the dreams in his 1899 book. The psychoanalysts have conducted this inquiry swinging between the reconfirmation of that formulation and its partial or complete rejection. This book follows a different and new path. It does not try to assess if that formulation is scientifically valid or not, but to identify its “historic reality” – that is, its function in the context of Freud’s personal history considered in the context of a history which began in the transition from the XV to the XVI century. The Authors ground themselves in the dissatisfaction first manifested by Freud with that formulation . They conclude that it corresponds to Freud’s reaction to a trauma; the one which he went through when he encountered a culture which appeared in that transition and which did not conceive of psychic reality as only the mixture of sexuality and death codified by that formulation. However, the latter is not conceived of in this book as regarding Freud’s privacy, but as the moment in which the history of the reaction to that culture reaches the point to directly hit dreams. Freud and the psychoanalysts have forgotten that trauma. The Authors start from finding it again to rethink the training of psychoanalysts and of psychotherapists; to confer to psychoanalysis a new identity; and to outline a technique which allows to search in dreams meanings not predefined by the Freudian paradigm. But they intend also to preserve dreams, which are the main expression of human freedom, from the tyrannical intent to discipline them by subjecting them to that paradigm.
Messages from the Depths: Dreams as Inner Guides on the Path to Trauma Recovery
2017
This paper presents a case study about the potential of dreams to mediate traumatic experience in art therapy. It presents the theoretical foundations of dream work according to S. Freud and C. Jung, and art therapy research to support a rationale for using client’s dreams to support trauma recovery. The methodology is from Moon’s process for dialogue with a dream (2007) that evokes existential questions that the dream presents. The participant was pre-selected from residents of a domestic abuse shelter who reported a dream that was significant in recovery after a traumatic experience. The findings in this case study supported the hypothesis that dreams have the compensatory potential to provide supportive imagery and clues to existential questions confronting the participant, and that attention to this material in therapy is beneficial to the participant. The study concludes that dreams can be an important avenue for clients to experience resilience and begin to process emotions an...
Expressive writing about dreams that follow trauma and loss
In a study of expressive writing about impactful dreams, the effects of writing instructions (factual writing, emotional writing, experiential writing) were examined among individuals who had recently experienced either significant trauma or significant loss. Among those who had recently experienced trauma, both emotional writing and experiential writing about their impactful dreams accentuated traumatic distress. However, experiential writing distinctively facilitated the affirmation (or rehearsal) of a trauma narrative that emphasized unintentional responsibility rather than direct self-blame. In contrast, among those who had recently experienced loss, absorption in the revisualized dream predicted significant (but unspecified) shifts in self-perception, especially in the experiential writing condition. While the trauma-specific effects of expressive writing are consistent with prior research suggesting that expressive writing benefits those who have recently experienced trauma but not those who have recently experienced loss, the present results suggest the importance of examining population-specific outcomes in studies of the psychological benefits of expressive writing about dreams.
Trauma, Narrative, and Two Forms of Death
Literature and Medicine, 2006
There are several very different ways in which the relationship between "trauma" and "narrative" (or "life narrative") is articulated. 1 some scholars think that these two concepts are opposites-stories are a mode of symbolic structure that constructs identity, while trauma is the effect of that which evades structure and shatters identity. many attribute such an understanding to Freud, such as Cathy Caruth's approach to the relationship between trauma and the historical narrative. 2 These approaches stress mostly the discrepancies between the repetitive and belated temporal structure of the trauma versus the linear temporal structure of the narrative.
Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies, 2014
By means of their own genre-specific techniques, the movie Inception and the video game Alan Wake incarnate the same concept—that of trauma. While the origin of a trauma is generally agreed upon among trauma theorists, the issue of representation is widely debated. It is the aim of this paper to investigate the representation of traumas across media, to compare the results and thus shed some light on the question of whether trauma can only be psychologically categorized or if it even has become a significant societal trope.
The nightmare and the narrative
Dreaming, 2012
This paper proposes that dreams can be analyzed from a narrative perspective and that this approach produces a new appreciation of dreams. When we ask the dreamer narrative-like questions such as “How would you change the story of the dream?” or “If they were making a movie of this dream, who would play you?” we take the dream work in a different direction than when we ask questions of the form “Does this dream remind you of something in your waking life?” Consideration of the formal narrative components of the dream report allows us to address issues and remedies that are not readily apparent in other approaches. In the case of the nightmare, imagining the dream as a story can prepare the dreamer to master the nightmare’s climax. Within the logic of the nightmare, it enables the dreamer to identify or create sources of support and to see herself as someone who can solve the nightmare problem. It provides the dreamer with the means to eliminate the nightmare. A dream report is rarely a complete story, and narrative can be used when we can conceptualize the dream as a fragment implying a narrative whole. The nightmare can be seen as a fragment which consistently halts at what would be the climax of a plot. Correspondingly, there is a quasi-nightmare embedded in the plot of many novels and films; Stephen King’s horror story Carrie is taken as an example. Many of the analyses and techniques used in both nightmare studies and in nightmare interventions already imply a narrative perspective. In particular, narrative offers an explanation for the success of the Imagery Rehearsal Technique (IRT) method of working with nightmares. Narrative analysis can benefit dream work in three ways. First, narrative suggests a framework in which current approaches to nightmares can be understood; second, it offers a different way to consider dream reports; and third, the extensive body of narrative theory as well as practical applications, such as screenwriting techniques, can be applied to dream work.
THE TRAUMATIC OF THE DREAM AND ITS AWAKENING RELATED TO THE HORROR OF THE FANTASTIC TALE, TYQUE AND THE OBJECT OF THE OTHER'S DESIRE (Atena Editora), 2023
The subject repeats, as continuously as it is unknown, the way in which he responds to what is inscribed as traumatic, just as Freud situates the reality of trauma in 1920. This excess that escapes him is placed as an incessant repetition of the impossible to be represented through language, it is the real as a missing encounter, named as tiquê by Lacan in 1964. From these freudian references on the real of trauma in lacanian work, we aim to draw a possible analogy between traumatic dreams, anxiety dreams and the horror caused in the reader of Contos Fantásticos, as well as to analyze the point at which the writer of fantastic tales seeks to create horror causing an intellectual uncertainty in the one who reads, not knowing if he is facing the real or a fiction. This theoretical work with an investigative purpose has a psychoanalytical framework and takes as its object a reading of some concepts in Freudian and Lacanian work, such as traumatic, graph of desire and object of the Other's desire. We intend to bring as an illustration the comparison of the dream concepts of the burning son in Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams and Hoffmann's Fantastic Tale, the Sandman. As a result, we can conclude that both this example and the narrative structure of Hoffmann's Fantastic Tale can demonstrate the subject's estrangement as the object of the Other's desire, the missing encounter, the astonishment and the possibility of presenting the other scene, our unconscious.