Landscapes of the Dark

Résumé

Jonathan Sklar argues that the tension between Freud's commitment to interpretation and Ferenczi's extra parameter of being in the experience plays a key role in contemporary psychoanalytic debate, and that this tension can best be understood by returning to the place of trauma in psychoanalysis. Taking this debate into the heart of the clinical setting, a set of extensive, penetrating and often disturbing case studies examine the evocation of the real as early trauma for many patients and its subsequent mental development.