Rechtman, Richard <br/><br/>
Remarks on the Fate of Psychoanalysis in the Social Uses of Trauma 

 -  2005.<br/>							 
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<br/><br/> In 1980, when American psychiatry transformed the term of traumatic neurosis into the State of Post-Traumatic Stress without modifying the classical semiology, a whole new conception of trauma was created. For the first time in the history of post-traumatic stress, the traumatized figure finds itself confused with being the witness of the terrors of our era. After having been one of the elements prefiguring this transformation, psychoanalysis ends by being sacrificed on the altar of this new traumatic reasoning. Viewing social usages of psychical traumatism from an anthropological perspective enables the author to point out what is at stake in this reversal.