Citation

Macedo MMK, Werlang BSG. Int. Forum Psychoanal. 2011; 20(1): 18-25.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2011, Scandinavian University Press)

DOI

10.1080/0803706X.2010.497162

PMID

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Abstract

This paper approaches the existing relationship between trauma, psychic pain and attempted suicide. The contributions of authors in psychoanalysis- regarding the psychic functioning in the face of the domain of the unrepresentable-allow for producing a psychoanalytical understanding of attempted suicide. By means of a clinical illustration, the interrelation existing between trauma, the predominance of the unrepresentable and the psychic dynamics taking part in the dramaticity of a suicide attempt is sought and explored. Hence, such analysis of how one may think regarding attempted suicide, in the way it is named in this paper, as a pain-act, which denounces as it discharges, is the despaired attempt made by the subject in order to get rid of the psychic pain. © 2011 The International Federation of Psychoanalytic Societies.

Language: en

Keywords

human; trauma; suicide attempt; emergency care; adolescent health; article; psychoanalysis; priority journal; psychotrauma; psychogenic pain; pain-act; psychic pain; unrepresentable