Book, Third time of trauma[LS]

The reader of this book will follow step by step, with fascination and suspense, the interweaving of multiple stories that form the complex design of the concept of psychic trauma in the field of psychoanalysis. Nothing is more current in this era of social catastrophes that leave traces of the traumatic daily lives we have experienced since the First World War (1914-1918). It is there that the author sets the scene for the inventive dialogue between Freud and Ferenczi about the neuroses of traumatized soldiers. It gave rise to the understanding of traumatic repetition that seeks expression of the unrepresentable of Horror. An excellent writer and storyteller, as well as a rigorous researcher, the author circulates in a creative and erudite way through the psychoanalytic clinic, through historical and literary narratives and through the history of concepts. Attentive and patient listening is the psychoanalytic instrument that allows the agglutination of fragments dispersed in the three psychic times of the trauma, as proposed by the author: time of shock, time of resignification and time of the environment's response to the shock. Welcoming listening testifies to the deadly agonies of repetition that brings the various faces of trauma, in the hope that, through speech, some opening for renewal and rebirth emerges, each day, with the sunrise. [Renata Udler Cromberg]