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Freud’s work establishes a link between an excessive amount of excitation, the infant’s experience of helplessness, and trauma. The idea of excess emphasises a quantitative element, not reducible to the field of representation
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Modern approaches to psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic treatment attempt to help patients to transform into language that which had never before been represented and verbalized.
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Modern approaches to psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic treatment attempt to help patients to transform into language that which had never before been represented and verbalized. This will have crucial implications for a technique in psychoanalysis, for the way one speaks to one's patients.
Professor Rosine J Perelberg
University College London
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This page is a summary of: On excess, trauma and helplessness: Repetitions and transformations, The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, December 2015, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1111/1745-8315.12438.
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