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Value, trauma, and personal reality
1Department of Psychological Medicine, University of Sydney, Westmead Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic
|December 10, 1999
Abstract:
It is often said that psychoanalysis is a science of meaning. However, it also concerns value. Although value is a central aspect of personal existence, it is relatively neglected in traditional theory. How value arises in the sphere of the personal is the main theme of this article. A second theme concerns attacks on value, which leave their imprints on the psychic system as unconscious memories that are repeatedly evoked in the therapeutic conversation.