Traumatised and Non-Traumatised States of the Personality: A Clinical Understanding Using Bion's

363 Pages·2014·0.97 MB·English

by  Rafael E. Lopez-Corvo

TRAUMATISED AND NON-TRAUMATISED
STATES OF THE PERSONALITY
TRAUMATISED AND
NON-TRAUMATISED
STATES OF THE
PERSONALITY
A Clinical Understanding
Using Bion’s Approach
Rafael E. López-Corvo
First published in 2014 by
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To my daughter Vanessa Helena López-Corvo
who already has taken a similar path
and
my granddaughter Isabel Elena López-Bryce,
still too young to decide
CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS xi
ABOUT THE AUTHOR xiii
PREFACE xv
INTRODUCTION xxiii
CHAPTER ONE
“Evicted from life”: time distortion between pre-conceptual and
conceptual traumas 1
CHAPTER TWO
The mark of Cain: ego and superego narcissistic identifications
with pre-conceptual traumas 23
CHAPTER THREE
The conceptualisation of pre-conceptual traumas 35
vii
viii CONTENTS
CHAPTER FOUR
The unconscious: the messenger of truth from Bion’s
perspective of container–contained interaction 55
CHAPTER FIVE
Transformation of pre-conceptual traumas: heteromorphic or
homeomorphic symbolisations 69
CHAPTER SIX
“Deferred action” (“après coup”) and the emotional interaction
between pre-conceptual and conceptual traumas 87
CHAPTER SEVEN
Pre-conceptual traumas as the tyrannical presence of absences 95
CHAPTER EIGHT
Negative and positive links as a form of communication in the
traumatised and non-traumatised states (TS N-TS) 109
CHAPTER NINE
The traumatised ego and the traumatising superego 131
CHAPTER TEN
Acting out pre-conceptual traumas: interruption of therapy and
“catastrophic change” 145
CHAPTER ELEVEN
Pre-conceptual traumas: inflicted by chance and repeated by
compulsion 157
CHAPTER TWELVE
The world of sigma (∑) 175
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
The triangle’s entrapment: pre-conceptual traumas and
the oedipal condition 197
CONTENTS ix
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
All pregnancies are twins: one baby in the uterus and one
baby in the mind—pre-conceptual traumas and infertility 213
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
Children from the claustrum: pre-conceptual traumas
and addiction 229
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
Pre-conceptual traumas and somatic pathology: the
body’s attempt to dream a repetitious undreamed dream 247
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
Pre-conceptual traumas and totalitarianism 269
Anamilagros Pérez Morazzani and Rafael E. López-Corvo
NOTES 287
REFERENCES 303
INDEX 311