Trauma, Part I: What Is Trauma?

In this episode, we discuss Freud’s concept of Nachträglichkeit — deferred action — Freud’s cases of Emma Eckstein and the Rat Man, and finally a case related to trauma presented by the Lacanian psychoanalyst Sonia Chiriaco.This episode is a revised version of a text originally presented on 7–8 February 2021 at "Psychoanalytic Clinic from Freud to Lacan," an event organized in collaboration with the Psychoanalytic Research Association and Bahçeşehir University, adapted for podcast.The sources mentioned in this second episode, in order of appearance, are listed below:Sigmund Freud, Case Histories I: Dora and Little Hans, trans. Ayhan Eğrilmez, Istanbul: Payel Yayınları, 1998.Sigmund Freud, Case Histories II: The Rat Man, trans. Ayhan Eğrilmez, Istanbul: Payel Yayınları, 1996.Freud, S. (1975a). “Project for a Scientific Psychology.” In J. Strachey (Ed. & Trans.), The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, Vol. I, pp. 283–397. London: The Hogarth Press. Original work published in 1895.Sigmund Freud, Case Histories II, trans. Ayhan Eğrilmez, Istanbul: Payel Yayınları, 1996.Chiriaco, S. (2012). Le désir foudroyé: Sortir du traumatisme par la psychanalyse. Paris: Navarin / Le Champ freudien.Lacan, J. Les non-dupes errent: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book XXI, lesson of 19 February 1974. The French word trou means “hole” or “gap”; Lacan is therefore making a play on words, suggesting that trauma involves an encounter with a hole or gap.Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/psk.oguzhannacak/?hl=en⁠Twitter/X: ⁠https://x.com/oguzhannck⁠Website: ⁠https://www.oguzhannacak.com/en⁠

What does psychoanalysis call trauma? This episode approaches trauma through Freud and Lacan, before situating the question in relation to the clinic.This episode is a revised version of a text originally presented on 7–8 February 2021 at "Psychoanalytic Clinic from Freud to Lacan," an event organized in collaboration with the Psychoanalytic Research Association and Bahçeşehir University, adapted for podcast.The sources mentioned in this first episode, in order of appearance:​Freud, S. (1896a). Heredity and the aetiology of the neuroses. In SE, 3: 141–156.​Freud, S. (1896b). Further remarks on the neuro-psychoses of defence. In SE, 3: 157–185.​Freud, S. (1896c). The aetiology of hysteria. In SE, 3: 186–221.​Letter to Wilhelm Fliess (21 September 1897). In J. M. Masson (Ed.), The Complete Letters of Sigmund Freud to Wilhelm Fliess, 1887–1904. Harvard University Press, 1985: 264–267. https://www.pep-web.org/document.php?id=zbk.042.0264a​On the studies regarding PTSD: Bistoen, T., Vanheule, S., & Craps, S. (2014). Nachträglichkeit: A review of the history and concept of deferred action in psychoanalysis. Psychoanalysis and History, 16(1): 31–57. https://users.ugent.be/~scraps/docs/bistoen_vanheule_craps_-_nachtraglichkeit.pdf​Lacan, J. (1989). Geneva lecture on the symptom (R. Grigg, Trans.). Analysis, 1: 7–26. (Original work delivered 1975)​Freud, S. New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis. In SE, 22: 1–182. (Original work published 1933)​Freud, S. Fragment of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria ("Dora"). In SE, 7: 1–122. (Original work published 1905)​Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/psk.oguzhannacak/?hl=enTwitter/X: https://x.com/oguzhannckWebsite: https://www.oguzhannacak.com/en

On Lacan is the English-language version of Psikanaliz Sohbetleri, a Turkish podcast series by Oğuzhan Nacak on psychoanalysis, Freud, and the teaching of Jacques Lacan.The project began as a series of talks in Turkish, written and produced by Nacak, with the aim of introducing and working through some of the central questions of Lacanian psychoanalysis. This English version makes the series accessible to a wider audience.Each episode is adapted into English with the help of AI and narrated using an AI-generated version of Nacak’s own voice. The texts are reviewed and edited before publication, so the series remains an authorial work rather than an automatically generated podcast.This first episode introduces the scope and aim of the podcast, and sets out the place from which the series approaches Freud and Lacan.https://www.oguzhannacak.com/en/