The psychic life of fragments : on splitting and the experience of time in psychoanalysis / Raluca Soreanu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Soreanu, Raluca, author.

Series:

Relational perspectives book series.

Relational perspectives book series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychic trauma.

Psychoanalysis.

Time--Psychological aspects.

Time.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (250 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2026.

Summary:

The Psychic Life of Fragments rethinks trauma and psychic fragmentation starting from the psychoanalytic clinic.What does it mean to work with fragments in psychoanalysis? What is the psychic life of fragments? And what can a fragment do? Raluca Soreanu writes about trauma, fragmentation and the radical plasticity of the psyche. Reconstructing Sa̹ndor Ferenczi's trauma theory, she articulates an original vocabulary of fractures, splits, atomisations, pulverisations, leakages, detritus and psychic dematerialisation along with new formations, protective membranes, expansions, contagions and growths. She approaches the scene of trauma from new angles, paying attention to oblique lines and asymmetric encounters. Mobilizing clinical and literary vignettes, this book further argues for a minor psychoanalysis, one that emerges at the intersection of four types of theoretical-clinical experimentation: a psychoanalysis of scars, a psychoanalysis of organs, an eventful psychoanalysis and a blue psychoanalysis.This book is important for clinicians and trainees in psychoanalysis, for mental health practitioners working with trauma, and for psychosocial and psychoanalytic thinkers. It is written to be used, between the psychoanalytic chair and the couch, especially at challenging times, in the transference and in the world.

Contents:

1. The Psychic Life of Fragments: On Splitting and its Times

2. Repetition, Reliving and the Drives

3. The Times of Orpha

4. The Analyst's Times

5. Coda.

Notes:

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

1-04-070642-8

1-04-047690-2

1-03-271592-8

9781032715926

OCLC:

1577304976