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The case of Ronald oedipal issues in the treatment of a seven-year-old boy

  • In this discussion, I nest Howell's work in a broader psychoanalytic look at trauma and dissociation. I approach Howell's paper as a trauma narrative situated in the context of emergent relational theory and practice. A critique is offered that focuses on the way trauma is vocalized and inscribed in psychoanalytic writing and reading. In particular, I examine the problematic aspects of that inscription and suggest that trauma resists psychoanalytic articulation in both writing and reading. I suggest that, as an alternative model, psychoanalytic reading must become psychoanalytic witnessing. Such witnessing is demonstrated in the analysis of style and content in Howell's work. In this context, contemporary definitions of trauma and dissociation are challenged, insofar as they occlude the traumatic history they attempt to elucidate.

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Author:Sue Grand
Parent Title (English):Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 12 (2002), pp. 959-970.
Document Type:Articles
Language:English
Year of first Publication:2002
Release Date:2017/11/20
Format:xerox upon request / Fotokopie auf Anfrage
IdNo:Grand_S_2002
Erich Fromm's Library and Erich Fromm Archive:Articles / Artikel
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