OVERCOMING THE TRAUMATIC: DIALOGUE BETWEEN PSYCHOANALYSIS AND CRITICAL THEORY

Authors

  • MARIA VIRGINIA FILOMENA CREMASCO

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.12957/polemica.2010.2816

Abstract

This article discusses the clinical mechanisms for overcoming psychic traumas from a theoretical point of view by articulating psychoanalysis and Honneth's critical theory (2000). Overcoming a trauma is related to one's capacity for mentalization and symbolization. As a clinical mechanism, the objective is to find meaning in the pain, a process that occurs through significant intersubjective relationships that recognize the traumatized individual's suffering and enable her or him to develop containment that will favor these connections of meaning.  The conclusion is that the need for recognition since Hegel but as called for in Honneth's new critical theory (2000), is presented as paradigmatic for a therapeutic approach to trauma. This theory also deals with conflicts and pathologies that result from the infringement of the implicit rules of recognition. It thus makes room for dialogue with psychoanalysis and its clinical mechanisms for treating trauma.

Keywords: Trauma, psychoanalysis, Critical Theory, clinical treatment

Author Biography

MARIA VIRGINIA FILOMENA CREMASCO

Professora Adjunto III do Departamento e do Mestrado em Psicologia da Universidade Federal do Paraná (Brasil). Doutorado em Saúde Mental (Unicamp - Brasil, 2002). Pós-doutorado em Psicopatologia e Psicanálise (Université Denis Diderot – Paris VII, 2010). Suas pesquisas atuais se concentram sobre os traumatismos psíquicos e possibilidades clínicas de intervenção. Membro da Associação Universitária de Pesquisa em Psicopatologia Fundamental. Autora do livro Psicopatologia e Disfunção Erétil: a clínica psicanalítica do impotente (2004, Ed. Escuta, Brasil).Pesquisadora Associada do LIPIS.

Published

2012-03-29

How to Cite

CREMASCO, M. V. F. (2012). OVERCOMING THE TRAUMATIC: DIALOGUE BETWEEN PSYCHOANALYSIS AND CRITICAL THEORY. POLÊM!CA, 9(4), 16 a 26. https://doi.org/10.12957/polemica.2010.2816

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Section

LIPIS - Laboratório Interdisciplinar de Pesquisa e Intervenção Social