From Traumatism to Trauma: Clinical Variations of Traumatism in Psychoanalysis.
The author proposes to distinguish between three theoretico-clinical variations of the concept of traumatism (“traumatism”, “traumatic” and “trauma”), developed by S. Freud between 1895 and 1938, but which still maintain their pertinence today from a metapsychological standpoint.
Abstract
In this article, the author proposes to distinguish between three theoretico-clinical variations of the concept of traumatism (“traumatism”, “traumatic” and “trauma”), developed by S. Freud in his works between 1895 and 1938, but which still maintain their pertinence today from a metapsychological standpoint. In parallel to these distinctions, the author's aim is to reveal the incidence such traumatic contexts can have, both from the organisational and the disorganisational point of view, upon the psychic functioning of any subject.