TRAUMA, DESAMPARO E SOFRIMENTO PSÍQUICO NA ENFERMARIA DE ORTOPEDIA E TRAUMATOLOGIA.

Abstract

This study was based on my experience as a psychologist in the Orthopedic and Traumatology Ward at the Clinics Hospital of the Uberlândia Federal University of (HCUUFU). This dissertation sought to answer the question "What are the implications of physical trauma on the psyche of the subject?" An investigation was carried out using the psychoanalytic literature of Sigmund Freud on psychic trauma, repetition, helplessness and the death instinct. Also, it aimed to study trauma in the medical field, as well as its relevance to contemporary psychoanalytic clinic. In terms of elaborations, the issue of pain and the body for the mexican painter Frida Kahlo and the narratives of three client sessions whose bodies bore physical and psychological trauma in clinical fragments of stories by Amanda, Mary and John were presented. The objectives of this investigation were: define the term trauma in the Freudian psychoanalytic field; differentiate the psychoanalytic concept of trauma with the medical concept of trauma; establish the relationship between trauma, repetition, drive, helplessness and psychological distress; analyze clinical fragments from life stories of three patients; discuss Psychoanalytic Listening as a possible therapeutic approach in the hospital ward of multiple trauma. In general, the following was concluded: physical trauma and its relation to psychic trauma is sustained in the unconscious logic, servicing the death instinct which enforces the initial helplessness reissue; narcissistic physical trauma scars the psyches, opening a slit which can be the advent of desire and therefore making it possible for the subject to direct his-her life beyond the traumatic episode; and finally, the necessity to discuss the place of the analyst in a hospital, who, when, proposes a singular listening of the subject of the unconscious, establishes tension between medical and psychoanalytic discourses.