Résistance et trauma: introduire l'existence

Abstract

Resilience is implicitly thought as a capacity that some have, but that no one has done much to obtain, so that the notion of resistance to narcissistic and traumatic wounds, remains necessary. Resistance evokes an unconscious obstruction in metapsychology, or martial in history. The meaning in our case is different: resisting trauma is an emotional and intellectual effort to move beyond a stupefying awareness. This includes that: perception is not neutral; existence fragments the psyche; both intergenerational and adversity determine distinct self-states. The article presents five theses upon which existential analysis can rely. The latter re-founds existences where usual therapies renounces to do so: persistent traumatic states. Symptoms may disappear in course of analysis, including excessive dissociative archaic defences, physical or mental, although it aims elsewhere. Existential analysis seeks to reveal to subjects that they are abdicating their freedom if they consider received ideas about the world as free choices.