Trauma and Pain Without a Subject

Juan-Eduardo Tesone is Emeritus Professor of Psychoanalysis at the University of Salvador (USAL), Argentina, and Associate Professor of Psychology at Paris Nanterre University, France. He is a Member and Training Analyst of the Argentine Psychoanalytic Association and Member of the International Psychoanalytical Association. He is the author of more than 100 articles in specialist journals, in Spanish, French, English, Italian, German, Portuguese, and Croatian, and author and co-author of several books.

“The author discusses the challenges facing a psychoanalysis that refuses to be a relic. Tesone re-thinks subjective production through the vicissitudes of the drives and their identification destiny, in a trajectory from indiscrimination to the acceptance of otherness and subjective evolution. How can we produce theoretical thinking anchored in clinical experience and capable of fighting dogmatism? How do we consider the complexity of the subject, which oscillates between the redundant and the unpredictable, between repetition and novelty? These questions permeate his book. It provokes enthusiasm because it dares to be open while also based on experience. A book that invites a dialogue. It has brought me to re-think notions I thought definitive. For this I am grateful and recommend it.” - Dr. Luis Horstein, Physician and psychoanalyst, President of FUNDEP (Foundation for Psychoanalytic Studies) “The author highlights two poles that structure the traumatic: the existence of the other and the subject’s own sexuality. He emphasizes the specific in what is Disruptive, the Traumatic, and Symbolization: a total lack of representation, a black hole of the psyche. He alerts us to the excess of binding as the antithesis of chaos, which is the basis of psychic change. In this sense, psychoanalysis is called upon to work through the tension between the sexes of the phallic order and the ‘nothing’ order, generating idiosyncratic representations and overcoming the cisgender product of thwarting binarism. In this set of psychoanalytic texts, Tesone gives us a creative, in-depth discussion of the vicissitudes of the body.” - Moty Benyakar, Physician, psychiatrist, and Full Member of the Israeli Psychoanalytic Society; Professor Emeritus of the USAL, M.D., Ph.D., Director of the Contemporary Psychoanalysis and the Disruptive Committee in the doctoral program in Psychology of the USAL; Full Member of the Argentine Psychoanalytic Association and of the International Psychoanalytical Association.

• About the authorSeries editor's forewordPreface IntroductionPART I – Transgression and crime Chapter 1: Incests and transgression of the narcissistic taboo Chapter 2: Incest is not the Oedipus Chapter 3: From the theory of seduction to traumatic seduction Chapter 4: In-cestus: from disavowal to revelation. Analysis of the film “The Celebration” (FESTEN)Chapter 5: Dominique: incest in the folds of the name or ig-nominia Chapter 6: A pain without a subject PART II – Between completeness and nothingness Chapter 7: Could what they say be true?Chapter 8: The importance of the No in the prevention of sexual violence against children and adolescentsChapter 9: Femicide and orphanhood Chapter 10: The divine jouissance, the feminine position, and the mysticsChapter 11: Masculinities checkmated? Chapter 12: The tattoo and the shield of PerseusChapter 13: William, did you say, “Much Ado about Nothing”? PART III – Yes, we see, but what? What we hear Chapter 14: Hysteria’s contribution to subjectivity Chapter 15: Sexes and genders Chapter 16: Cumulative trauma and “troumatique” Chapter 17: Viability of psychic change. Between the disruptive of life and the inertia of the deadly, or how to generate fertile psychic changesChapter 18: What hurts you? Psychic vulnerability and somatic disorderChapter 19: Transformations of the formless: painting and psychoanalysis Chapter 20: Commemorating, remembering, forgetting