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Soreanu was deeply impressed by her experiences in the streets of Rio de Janeiro during the “20 cent” uprising in June 2013. Her attempts at deriving a psychoanalytic understanding of the nature of the collective experience of a million people in the streets resulted in this most interesting analysis. She synthesizes a social sciences model with a psychoanalytic theoretical model, effectively proposing in her thesis how collective wounds were precipitated and worked through in the “20 cent” uprising – a rise in transportation costs representing the last straw for a populace burdened by ever-increasing fares. Her insights may be quite relevant in understanding other such phenomena such as the “gilet jaune” manifestations in France.
Sándor Ferenczi’s trauma theory is much more serviceable in deriving conceptual models based on empirical observations as he studied the impact of environmental stresses on self-development and traumatic self-fragmentation, whereas more classical Freudian and Kleinian models focus on the endogenous phylogenetic contribution to ego development. Soreanu has made an exhaustive research of Ferenczi’s major and more obscure writings in arriving at an important psychoanalytic thesis that weds external sociopolitical and cultural pressures with internal intrapsychic processes in a meaningful synthesis. In the process, she introduces the reader to a rich source of psychoanalytic thinking that had been forgotten by generations of analysts.
Soreanu weaves her experiences in the streets of Rio with an exploration of Ferenczian concepts, moving rhythmically from experience to concept in creating a tapestry of transcendental thoughts in her conclusion.
Brevity of space in this review demands that I can only touch on some of many concepts and experiences woven together.
Pleasures of resemblance, repetition, and rediscovery are early developmental experiences in context of childhood mimetism in exploring the world outside the body and representing the experi