TY - JOUR PY - 2022// TI - Social trauma and testimony: a reading of Maryan S. Maryan's notebooks Inspired by Sándor Ferenczi JO - American journal of psychoanalysis A1 - Kupermann, Daniel SP - ePub EP - ePub VL - ePub IS - ePub N2 - The purpose of this paper is to present the relational dimension of trauma according to Sándor Ferenczi, illustrating it by using the testimonial material produced during the analysis of Maryan S. Maryan, a visual artist, survivor of Auschwitz. Furthermore, a few formulations are proposed on being witness to traumatic experiences in psychoanalytic practice, as well as what can be considered as ethics and politics in psychoanalysis when facing situations of social trauma and violence.

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LA - en SN - 1573-6741 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s11231-022-09354-x ID - ref1 ER -