
Trauma, Part II: Après-coup
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=en Twitter/X: https://x.com/oguzhannck Website: https://www.oguzhannacak.com/en