Sublime

The journalistic encounter seems to have the same regressive effect on a subject as the psychoanalytic encounter. The subject becomes a kind of child of the writer, regarding him as a permissive, all-accepting, all-forgiving mother, and expecting that the book will be written by her. Of course, the book is written by the strict, all-noticing, unfor

but by the psychic states with which the corresponding experiences in the patient have united.

A participant whose concern is her relationship with her employer can recognize, in another participant's discussion of his problems with his mother, the same existential structure that is at the source of her own problem. Thus The Forum leader regularly exhorts participants to "listen from your own concerns."

Breuer and Freud believed that traumatic memories were lost to ordinary consciousness either because “circumstances made a reaction impossible,” or because they started during “severely paralyzing affects, such as fright.”

The fact that Freud's structural model of the mind provides psychological fuel for narratives as different as The Iliad and Forbidden Planet strongly suggests that it captures essences, core dispositions, deep truths. And it continues to be relevant in an ever-changing, modern context.

Freud se renfonça dans son siège, hors de portée de la bougie, heureux d’être dans l’obscurité. Jamais il ne s’était dévoilé autant à Josef, ni à quiconque d’ailleurs, hormis Martha, à qui il écrivait chaque jour une lettre, pour lui livrer ses sentiments, ses pensées les plus intimes.

« Dans de nombreux cas psychiatriques, écrit-il, le malade a une histoire qu’on ne raconte pas et qu’en général, personne ne connaît. Pour moi, la véritable thérapie ne commence qu’une fois examinée l’histoire personnelle. Celle-ci représente le secret du malade, secret qui l’a brisé. En même temps cette histoire renferme la clé du traitement. Il e

In Adlerian psychology, trauma is definitively denied. This was a very new and revolutionary point. Certainly, the Freudian view of trauma is fascinating. Freud’s idea is that a person’s psychic wounds (traumas) cause his or her present unhappiness. When you treat a person’s life as a vast narrative, there is an easily understandable causality and