The problematics of trauma or the trauma as a problem in psychoanalysis

Abstract

This study investigates the notion of trauma in psychoanalysis. First, it discusses trauma from the elaboration of the concept of the unconscious, showing how the relation between trauma and the unconscious in Freud refers the psychoanalytic discourse to a thought of finitude. Secondly, it sends that statement back to its historical condition: the construction of such notions appears as a response to a specific problem of modernity that comes from the events of life, work and language. In this light, the traumatic emerges as a figure of a history of problems, where the relation between thought and event brings the difference to the discourse.