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Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy

City University of New York (CUNY)

Trauma

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Translator Of Soliloquies: Fugues In The Key Of Dissociation, Seo-Young J. Chu Jan 2020

Translator Of Soliloquies: Fugues In The Key Of Dissociation, Seo-Young J. Chu

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Chu, Seo-Young. “Translator of Soliloquies: Fugues in the Key of Dissociation” (chapbook). Black Warrior Review 46.2, Spring 2020.


Blood/Lust: Freud And The Trauma Of Killing In War, Nolen Gertz Jan 2010

Blood/Lust: Freud And The Trauma Of Killing In War, Nolen Gertz

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During World War I, Sigmund Freud and his followers held a special symposium in Budapest entitled "Psycho-Analysis and the War Neuroses." Their contributions centered on the importance of trying to understand what can cause a soldier to become traumatized in war by investigating the individual factors of each case as opposed to merely the situational factors. Thus by redefining such ambiguous illnesses as shell shock and war strain into the Freudian framework of the traumatic neuroses, they were able to do what the neurologists could not — explain the meaning behind the soldiers' symptoms and treat them with successful results. …