Cohen, Josh. 2017. Psychic Life: A New Focus on Early Infancy. In: Gregorio Kohon, ed. British Psychoanalysis: The Independent Tradition. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 73-87. ISBN 9781138579057 [Book Section]

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This chapter explores texts by D. W. Winnicott, Masud Khan and Christopher Bollas, focusing in particular on Khan's notion of 'cumulative trauma' and on trauma as a structural fact of early infancy. It mobilizes the French understanding of Freudian nachtraglichkeit or 'apres coup' to reframe early trauma in retrospective terms.

Item Type:	Book Section
Keywords:	D.W.Winnicott; Christopher Bollas; Masud Khan; British Psychoanalysis; Independent Psychoanalysis; French Psychoanalysis; Early Infancy; Trauma; Nachtraglichkeit/ Apres-coup
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	English and Comparative Literature
Dates:	Date Event 6 October 2017 Accepted 13 December 2017 Published
Item ID:	24574
Date Deposited:	15 Oct 2018 11:31
Last Modified:	29 Apr 2020 16:55
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/24574

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