Trauma, Psychoanalysis and History

Located at the crossroads of psychoanalysis and history, this book investigates the ambiguous concept of trauma and the changes to its formulation and use between the years 1866 and 1939.

Auteur

Luis Sanfelippo, PhD, is a professor and researcher at the University of La Plata and the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. He coordinates the Centre for the History of Psychoanalysis at the National Library of Argentina, and has been a practising psychoanalyst since 2001.

Contenu

Introduction 1. Mechanical Trauma, Psychical Trauma: Railway Accidents and Hysteria (1866-1889) 2. Trauma and Memory: The Janet-Freud Debate, 1889-1895/1913-1914 3. Sexual Cause and Traumatic Testimonies: The Versions of the Neurotica and its Abandonment (1896-1933) 4. The War Neuroses and a New Economic Conception of Trauma (1914-1920) 5. On Collective Traumas: The Persistence and Transmission of Past Experiences (1913 and 1939) Conclusions