Herman Westerink is endowed and associate professor at the Center for Contemporary European Philosophy at Radboud University Nijmegen. Philippe Van Haute (†) was full professor at the Center for Contemporary European Philosophy, Radboud University Nijmegen, and extraordinary professor at the University of Pretoria.

Written by practicing psychoanalysts and longtime Freud-scholars, this study opens new perspectives on the inside-outside interweave of trauma, the role of time and personal history in the development of its related neuroses, and a serious but critical appraisal of Freud's group psychology. - Bettina Bergo, Université de Montréal

• Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1 The psychologization of trauma and the origination of seduction theory Chapter 2 Seduction and hysterical disposition: Dora Chapter 3 Trauma, aggression and father complex: The Rat ManChapter 4 Seduction, primal scene and constitution: The Wolf Man Chapter 5 Constitution, phylogeny and evolutionary biology Chapter 6 Traumatic neurosis, compulsion to repeat and drive theory: Beyond the Pleasure Principle Chapter 7 Trauma and character: The man Moses Chapter 8 Freud’s metaphysics of trauma Notes Bibliography Index

Herman Westerink is endowed and associate professor at the Center for Contemporary European Philosophy at Radboud University Nijmegen. Philippe Van Haute (†) was full professor at the Center for Contemporary European Philosophy, Radboud University Nijmegen, and extraordinary professor at the University of Pretoria.

Written by practicing psychoanalysts and longtime Freud-scholars, this study opens new perspectives on the inside-outside interweave of trauma, the role of time and personal history in the development of its related neuroses, and a serious but critical appraisal of Freud's group psychology. - Bettina Bergo, Université de Montréal

• Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1 The psychologization of trauma and the origination of seduction theory Chapter 2 Seduction and hysterical disposition: Dora Chapter 3 Trauma, aggression and father complex: The Rat ManChapter 4 Seduction, primal scene and constitution: The Wolf Man Chapter 5 Constitution, phylogeny and evolutionary biology Chapter 6 Traumatic neurosis, compulsion to repeat and drive theory: Beyond the Pleasure Principle Chapter 7 Trauma and character: The man Moses Chapter 8 Freud’s metaphysics of trauma Notes Bibliography Index

Herman Westerink is endowed and associate professor at the Center for Contemporary European Philosophy at Radboud University Nijmegen. Philippe Van Haute (†) was full professor at the Center for Contemporary European Philosophy, Radboud University Nijmegen, and extraordinary professor at the University of Pretoria.

Written by practicing psychoanalysts and longtime Freud-scholars, this study opens new perspectives on the inside-outside interweave of trauma, the role of time and personal history in the development of its related neuroses, and a serious but critical appraisal of Freud's group psychology. - Bettina Bergo, Université de Montréal

• Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1 The psychologization of trauma and the origination of seduction theory Chapter 2 Seduction and hysterical disposition: Dora Chapter 3 Trauma, aggression and father complex: The Rat ManChapter 4 Seduction, primal scene and constitution: The Wolf Man Chapter 5 Constitution, phylogeny and evolutionary biology Chapter 6 Traumatic neurosis, compulsion to repeat and drive theory: Beyond the Pleasure Principle Chapter 7 Trauma and character: The man Moses Chapter 8 Freud’s metaphysics of trauma Notes Bibliography Index