Trauma in the time of victims. This paper investigates trauma from the figure of the victim, one of the hallmarks of current culture. The aim is to examine the change of treatments offered to subjects who are considered traumatized in the passage from Freudian modernity to contemporary through narratives that deal, on both occasions, with experiences taken as traumatic. What follows is an appreciable difference between the Freudian notion of trauma, which refers to the excess and the unexpected, as well as the traumatism, an event socially legitimized as a producer of victims. In addition, it sustains the actuality of the psychoanalytic clinic as a power that reveals the overcome of the victimized identity to appraise the always unique destinations of trauma.
Trauma; traumatism; victim; contemporary