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Individual and collective trauma as mnesic organizer: identity, ego, and self

In: Memory, Trauma and Narratives of the Self

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  • Carlos Farate
  • Henrique Testa Vicente

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This chapter develops the theory that psychic trauma, either sexual or relational, is the mnesic organizer of the subject’s identity, as well as of its generational and collective identity in the territories he inhabits as an individual affiliated with a particular familial and social environment and living in a historical and cultural crossroads of its own. On the negative side of this enchainment, also of the unconscious triangulation of trauma, memory, and identity, they reflect on the inner and intersubjective causal dynamics that can lead to its pathological modification by ingraining the dissociative slipping of the ego that results from constant traumatic conjunction, alongside the narcissistic segmentation of the selfselfsegmentation of the. This process can only be reversed through the empathic intervention of a receptive third party, which can help the subject become aware of the individual and collective traumatic memory, reconnect to his psychic historicity, and restore the lost narcissistic continuity.

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  • Carlos Farate & Henrique Testa Vicente, 2024. "Individual and collective trauma as mnesic organizer: identity, ego, and self," Chapters, in: Edmundo Balsemão Pires & Cláudio A.S. Carvalho & Joana Ricarte (ed.), Memory, Trauma and Narratives of the Self, chapter 2, pages 48-64, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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