Abstract
Soreanu offers an overview of the contributions of Ferenczi’s trauma theory to psychoanalysis, to social theory, and, ultimately, to a psychosocial understanding of the creativities of the collective. Soreanu arrives at a phenomenology of psychic splitting, where one can follow, in a collective frame, what different psychic fragments ‘do’, or what becomes of their social life. Soreanu also discusses a surprising form of social diagnostics centred on the confusion of tongues, or the confusion between the registers of the social. This leads to important conclusions about the intergenerational transmission of trauma and violence.
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As Fassin and Rechtman argue, ‘trauma becomes something that testifies to the universality of suffering and to the equivalence of victims’ (Fassin and Rechtman 2009, p. 207).
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For some crucial formulations on trauma theory see Bohleber (2007, 2010), Caruth (1995, 1996), Felman and Laub (1992), Fletcher (2013), LaCapra (2014), Laub (1992), Laub and Lee (2003), and Luckhurst (2013). For commentaries on trauma theory in the work of Ferenczi, see Avelar (2013), Bokanowski (2004, 2005), Bonomi (2003, 2004), Borgogno (2007), Frankel (1998), Haynal (1989, 2014), Schneider (1988, 1993), and Szekacs-Weisz and Keve (2012). For commentaries on Ferenczi’s ‘Orpha’ see Gurevich (2016), Koritar (2016), and Smith (1998, 1999).
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Soreanu, R. (2018). Conclusions. In: Working-through Collective Wounds. Studies in the Psychosocial. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58523-3_11
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