Bastiani, Flora
How Does One Survive? A Phenomenological Approach to Crisis with Maldiney and Pankow
- 2017.
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In order to explore the critical time during which a traumatic event occurs, this article asks the question: how does one survive? This means that while the subject’s structure is about to have its unity broken, as Henri Maldiney writes, the subject “is required to be himself or be destroyed” (1991, p. 321). Here we will try to understand what strategies may be adopted to face this necessity to overcome the impossible. Finally, pathological disorders will be understood as survival strategies.