An attempt is made to locate the specificity of torture,
as an
expression of political violence and of a totalitarian
State, within the
historical framework of the psychoanalytic concept of
trauma.
When the mind and the social bond are simultaneously
affected, the
intrapsychic and transpersonal aspects of damage become
interwowen in
a complex, unique weft.
The paper tries to dismantle the concept of victim,
considering that it is
stigmatizing and wrong. The goal is to identify the
sequels of torture and the
disabilities it produces in the tortured persons, so
as to be able to integrate
their experience and story in a life project.
Following Freud in “Psychology of Groups and Analysis
of the Ego”, the
study focuses not on individual psychopathology but
on the suggestion and
hypnosis phenomena normally operating in human groups
in ordinary
situations which are exacerbated under the conditions
of a social crisis.
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