In conjunction with the encounter with the real, the Freudian-Lacanian approach defines trauma as the effect of potentially structuring language for the subject. Winnicott’s thought, paradoxical par excellence, gives a central place to playing and to the early bonding of the infans with its “good mother,” considering them more important than the drive, infantile sexuality, aspects related to language, or the role of the father in relation to the trauma. By formulating a transferential-transitional space for encounter, the authors of this article combine different aspects of heuristics and psychoanalytic praxis, sustained by these two currents. Based on these sources, the authors show the pertinence of articulating these sources in the clinic of the trauma. A fragment of the case of Mr. A, a traumatic neurotic, serves as the basis for this proposal.
Play; object a/transitional object; transference; trauma; Witz