Trauma, Guilt and Reparation: The Path from Impasse to Development

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Foreword
Preface and acknowledgements
1. Trauma, guilt and reparation: A psychoanalytic paradigm
	Developments in the psychoanalytic concept of trauma
	The consequences of traumatic experiences
	Reparation, repetition compulsion and guilt – a
psychoanalytic paradigm
	Reparation and symbol formation
	Preview of further chapters
	Notes
2. Impediments to reparation: Resentment, shame and wrath – the significance of the gaze
	Resentment
	Discussion
	Shame
	Discussion
	Rage and wrath
	Discussion
	Summary
	Notes
3. Repetition compulsion and the primitive super-ego: Attempts at reparation in borderline patients
	Precursors of processes of reparation in psychotic,
obsessive-compulsive, narcissistic and borderline patients
	Attempts at reparation and the development of the super-ego
	Processes which facilitate or systematically impede reparation
	Pathological organisations
	Course of treatment
	The retreat to an inaccessible island
	Emerging from the retreat and moving back into it
	Wrath – the impossibility of reparation
	On the threshold of the depressive position – despair and
retreat
	Conclusions
4. The ‘Tower’: Submission and illusory security in a traumatic defence organisation
	Clinical material
	Biography
	Course of treatment
	Subservience
	The conflict between the analysis and the pathological organisation
	Clinical material from a subsequent session
	Discussion
	Chaos and confusion
	A phase of coexistence
	Further changes
	Conclusion
5. Trauma, reparation and the limits of reparation
	Initial situation
	The ‘Joan Rivière dilemma’
	Further developments
	Material from a session
	Discussion
	Material from the next session
	Discussion
	The subsequent sessions
	The following session
	Additional thoughts and further developments
	Reparation, mourning and guilt
	Final remarks on remembering and forgetting
	Notes
6. Traumatic remembering and ecliptic forgetting: On the riddle of time in Jenny Erpenbeck’s The End of Days
	Notes
7. Reparation and gratitude
	Primary gratitude
	Gratitude in the history of philosophy
	Pathological gratitude
	Our reaction to being given gifts
	Gratitude as acknowledgement and receptivity
	Clinical material from the analysis of a psychotic patient
	The last treatment sessions
	Discussion
	The two last sessions
	Discussion
	Gratitude, reparation and transience
	Notes
Bibliography
Index