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Comments by Abstracter/Translator: Although there is no explicitly identified theme for this number of the Rivista, most of the articles deal with symbolization. Vallino describes the importance of ultimately enabling the symbolic representation of pathological transferences in trauma cases. In a sociological/psychoanalytic analysis, Contardi describes the current trend toward emphasizing action at the expense of symbolization and reflection, in both clinic and culture. Zilkha describes psychodrama as complementary to psychoanalytic work in enabling the representation of separateness in a severe narcissistic disorder of adolescence.
Theoretical-Clinical Journeys through Trauma. By Pp. 5-22.
The familial type of trauma is not necessarily experienced by the subject as a loss that affects him; but it is one that powerfully impacts and subsequently pervades the family environment. Patients who have suffered such traumas often end up in interminable analyses because these traumas bring about the collapse of normal identifications and the formation of pathological identifications, a phenomenon extensively described by Ferenczi. These pathological identifications resist symbolic representation and persist as introjects, persecutors of the Ego; they are not integrated into the developmental process, but are etched into the mind, devitalizing the self.