How to understand psychological trauma?

Freud's research on trauma theory has two ways. One way is retrospective method, which reshapes the psychological development process through memory association of adults.

another way is children's observation. Children's observation of Freud himself didn't do much, and his grandchildren, like Klein and later psychoanalysts, used this method more often.

In his early days, Freud heard many visitors associate a large number of traumatic scenes related to sex and abuse, which Freud believed at first. But the more the analysis, the more strange it is. He really can't imagine that the parents of these people would sexually abuse or abuse their children in this way.

after Freud clearly confirmed the existence of the subconscious, he found that it was not the case. External stimulus is only the inducement, and how the internal personality structure and psychological structure internalize and identify with external stimulus is the root of trauma.

Freud's trauma theory holds that a person has a balanced mental energy state. If the balance is broken, there will be a backlog, which will lead to anxiety.

things related to sex will upset the psychological energy balance. For example, problems in the oral period, problems in the anal period and problems in Oedipus period are all problems with libido drive or aggressive drive. The problem is the prototype of trauma, and various situations will occur.

(2) Three core viewpoints

The first is that there is an obstacle in the transformation from trauma to language, which is the most important feature of trauma so far. If you have experience in working with post-traumatic stress disorder, immigration, rape, robbery, accidental loss, car accidents and other visitors, you may have obvious experience. The language of such visitors is not simply talking, but the language function has been most obviously damaged.

Language is interpreted by Lacan as Freud's unconsciousness. Traumatic events make it impossible for an individual to convert a feeling or an experience into a symbolic symbol, and this person must not be freed, which is actually very powerful.

Freud found that some people use their bodies or behaviors to release energy, but their language function is greatly damaged, which is the core and remains unchanged.

Freud later gave up hypnosis and insisted on free association, which actually strengthened the mental ability, associative ability and symbolic ability of visitors.

second, trauma is always related to sex. First of all, there are indeed many sexual temptations, sexual assault, sexual deprivation, sexual extraction, sexual rejection, sexual apathy, and sexual neglect. If direct genital and sexual trauma occurs, many symptoms will inevitably appear in adulthood. Freud doesn't mean that sex is everything, but only highlights the influence of sex.

thirdly, trauma is always related to conflict. The conflict between repression and release is the core of Freud's original theory. In his later years, the structural theory was put forward in 1923, and the perspective was no longer the unconscious problem, but turned to different psychological structures, and conflict would lead to abnormal performance after trauma.

(III) Revision of the trauma theory

In p>1916, the trauma theory was revised, thinking that trauma is an experience and may not actually happen. Experience causes a powerful stimulus that the spirit can't cope with, interpret, understand and compile in the normal way, which leads to the continuous imbalance of energy operation mode in a short time.

This revision has a great impact on clinical analysis. Analysts no longer focus on transforming forgotten trauma and memory into language, but begin to focus on that part of experience that has never been forgotten.

If we focus on individual forgetfulness, we can make visitors remember it through work, speak it out, and others can help him. This is hypnosis. Focusing on the part that has never been forgotten, which is imperceptible in subjective consciousness, but never forgotten, the method of free association is directly derived.