{"title":"Memory and Its Entanglements: A Psychoanalytic Meditation on Terror and Aftermath","authors":"E. Mahon","doi":"10.1080/00797308.2021.1971903","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The global psychological impact of the events of September 11, 2001 are extremely difficult to measure statistically, and impossible for any one researcher to accomplish successfully. The narrower focus that the study of a few cases can offer, while less ambitious, can find, perhaps in depth, what it lacks in scope. In that spirit, this essay focuses on four individuals, two children and two adults and their distinctly individual reactions. One finding of such an impressionistic study is that it is quite difficult to separate the impact of one specific trauma from other developmental or psychoanalytic factors, which will come as no surprise to students of development or psychoanalysis. That said, the four individuals studied in this essay manage trauma in their own unique ways, suggesting that while trauma can challenge and impinge on character it cannot anticipate the resilience that redresses it with as many strategies as there are individual minds to deploy them. The four clinical descriptions in this essay emphasize this point in a graphic manner.","PeriodicalId":45962,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Study of the Child","volume":"75 1","pages":"46 - 58"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4000,"publicationDate":"2021-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Psychoanalytic Study of the Child","FirstCategoryId":"102","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00797308.2021.1971903","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"PSYCHIATRY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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ABSTRACT The global psychological impact of the events of September 11, 2001 are extremely difficult to measure statistically, and impossible for any one researcher to accomplish successfully. The narrower focus that the study of a few cases can offer, while less ambitious, can find, perhaps in depth, what it lacks in scope. In that spirit, this essay focuses on four individuals, two children and two adults and their distinctly individual reactions. One finding of such an impressionistic study is that it is quite difficult to separate the impact of one specific trauma from other developmental or psychoanalytic factors, which will come as no surprise to students of development or psychoanalysis. That said, the four individuals studied in this essay manage trauma in their own unique ways, suggesting that while trauma can challenge and impinge on character it cannot anticipate the resilience that redresses it with as many strategies as there are individual minds to deploy them. The four clinical descriptions in this essay emphasize this point in a graphic manner.
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The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child is recognized as a preeminent source of contemporary psychoanalytic thought. Published annually, it focuses on presenting carefully selected and edited representative articles featuring ongoing analytic research as well as clinical and theoretical contributions for use in the treatment of adults and children. Initiated in 1945, under the early leadership of Anna Freud, Kurt and Ruth Eissler, Marianne and Ernst Kris, this series of volumes soon established itself as a leading reference source of study. To look at its contributors is to be confronted with the names of a stellar list of creative, scholarly pioneers who willed a rich heritage of information about the development and disorders of children and their influence on the treatment of adults as well as children. An innovative section, The Child Analyst at Work, periodically provides a forum for dialogue and discussion of clinical process from multiple viewpoints.
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