Traumatised and Non-Traumatised States of the Personality: A Clinical Understanding Using Bion's Approach

ISBN-13: 9781782201373 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 362 str.

Rafael E. Lopez-Corvo

Opis

This book offers an original conception of trauma and of the working mind that has not been previously presented. It is mostly based on essentials taken from Bion's contributions. All human beings are fatalistically marked by the presence and eventual disappearance of primary part-objects. Many of these -presence-absences- are temporary events, but others will overcome Freud's -protective shield- and become permanent, amounting to an enduring distress or -pre-conceptual trauma-. Like the Mad Hatter's teatime in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, pre-conceptual traumas become an eternal now that are continuously projected everywhere. They structure the specific idiosyncrasy of every human and split the mind in two opposite states, the traumatized and the non-traumatized. Tentatively, the spirit and fundamental nature of the absolute ubiquity and meaning of pre-conceptual traumas could be forumulated as being diachronically structured in terms of a narrative of conjoined presences of absences, ones which stand for highly toxic and emotionally organized parasites that inhabit the unconscious mind from very early, and which feed on time and space, inhibit processes of symbolization, are projected everywhere, and reproduce themselves incessantly. They thereby determine not only all forms of psychopathology, but also the idiosyncrasy of every existing individual.

Spis treści

Preface -- Introduction: Theoretical considerations about pre-conceptual traumas and traumatised and non-traumatised states of the personality -- “Evicted from life”: time distortion between pre-conceptual and conceptual traumas -- The mark of Cain: ego and superego narcissistic identifications with pre-conceptual traumas -- The conceptualisation of pre-conceptual traumas -- The unconscious: the messenger of truth from Bion’s perspective of container–contained interaction -- Transformation of pre-conceptual traumas: heteromorphic or homeomorphic symbolisations -- “Deferred action” (“après coup”) and the emotional interaction between pre-conceptual and conceptual traumas -- Pre-conceptual traumas as the tyrannical presence of absences -- Negative and positive links as a form of communication in the traumatised and non-traumatised states (TS ⇔ N-TS) -- The traumatised ego and the traumatising superego -- Acting out pre-conceptual traumas: interruption of therapy and “catastrophic change” -- Pre-conceptual traumas: inflicted by chance and repeated by compulsion -- The world of sigma (Σ) -- The triangle’s entrapment: pre-conceptual traumas and the oedipal condition -- All pregnancies are twins: one baby in the uterus and one baby in the mind—pre-conceptual traumas and infertility -- Children from the claustrum: pre-conceptual traumas and addiction -- Pre-conceptual traumas and somatic pathology: the body’s attempt to dream a repetitious undreamed dream -- Pre-conceptual traumas and totalitarianism *

O autorze

E. Lopez-Corvo, Rafael