Trauma: The reverse of memory

Abstract

The present essay comprises an interrogation to psychoanalysis theory on the consequences of trauma in the psychic role of memory, based on the works of Sigmund Freud, Sandor Ferenczi e Nicolas Abraham e Maria Torok. We state that the traumatic subverts the psychic registry of events. The paradoxical image of trauma as the reverse of memory intends to offer a symbolism to this subversion, indicating the change in the direction of the psychic cathexis.