Supervisors info:
Βασλαματζής Γρηγόριος, Ομότιμος Καθηγητής, Τμήμα Ιατρικής, Ε.Κ.Π.Α.
Αναγνωστόπουλος Δημήτριος, Καθηγητής, Τμήμα Ιατρικής, Ε.Κ.Π.Α.
Τζινιέρη-Κοκκώση Μαρία, Επίκουρη Καθηγήτρια, Τμήμα Ιατρικής Ε.Κ.Π.Α.
Summary:
The present paper regards child trauma and how it repeats throughout the story of the traumatized subject. It represents a conceptual study, in which the meaning of trauma and the notion of repetition compulsion are explored, along with their relation, in the way they have been formulated by Freud and commodified by post-Freudian analysts. In particular, the aim of this study is to demonstrate that the subject repeats the traumatic event, in an effort to control it. This repetition occurs in various ways, that impact the subject’s psychic structure, it’s identity formation, it’s relationships and the route of it’s life. Examples from the field of art, literature, mythology and motion picture are presented, in order to reflect the image of trauma repetition in every day life.
The cycle of trauma repetition clearly also affects the psychotherapeutic work. Whether recognized or not, the trauma will lead the subject to seeking the answers that psychotherapy provides. By the means of the subject’s transference and the therapist’s countertransference, trauma repetition is recognized within the psychotherapeutic environment. The expression of repetitions within the therapeutic process is investigated, as well as the way in which they are experienced by the therapeutic couple, in the axis of transference-countertransference, through an intersubjective perspective. The clinical material of patients, with whom the author works psychotherapeutically in a psychodynamic approach, is used.
The aim of this study is to deepen in the understanding of trauma concepts and it’s repetition, as well as the phenomena that govern clinical practice. The systematization and the observation of the conclusions aims in enriching the psychotherapeutic work, whose goal is to highlight the uniqueness of the subject and it’s unconscious truth. The study of clinical paradigms confirms the presence of a repetitive compulsion of the traumatic event. This repetition within the therapeutic process, should ensure the subject’s safe regression in the age of trauma, so that the revival of the experience is fascilitated in a way that will intercept the repetitive course of the trauma and will lead in reparation.
Keywords:
Trauma, Repetition, Psychodynamic psychotherapy, Transference
