The Psychic Life of Fragments

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 ra...

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Hoofdauteur: Soreanu, Raluca
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description 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 Sándor 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.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1740942026-03-19T14:46:27Z The Psychic Life of Fragments Soreanu, Raluca Psychoanalytic theory Trauma studies Psychic fragmentation Clinical vignettes Ferenczi trauma model Mental health practitioners Minor psychoanalysis approaches thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JM Psychology::JMA Psychological theory, systems, schools and viewpoints::JMAF Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MK Medical specialties, branches of medicine::MKM Clinical psychology::MKMT Psychotherapy thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JM Psychology 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 Sándor 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. 2026-03-19T14:46:26Z 2026-03-19T14:46:26Z 2026-03-02T18:22:07Z 2026 book https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/111143 9781040476901 9781040706428 9781032715926 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/174094 eng Relational Perspectives Book Series open access image/jpeg n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/111143/1/9781040476901.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781032715926 10.4324/9781032715926 fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 9781040476901 9781040706428 9781032715926 Routledge 250 Oxford open access
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Ferenczi trauma model
Mental health practitioners
Minor psychoanalysis approaches
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The Psychic Life of Fragments
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Trauma studies
Psychic fragmentation
Clinical vignettes
Ferenczi trauma model
Mental health practitioners
Minor psychoanalysis approaches
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