Department of Cultural, Media & Visual Studies, University of Nottingham, B41a, Trent Building, University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK.
J Med Humanit. 2021 Jun;42(2):235-244. doi: 10.1007/s10912-020-09622-w.
This article makes the case for the largely unacknowledged relevance of the thought of the French psychoanalyst, Jacques Lacan, for the emerging field of the medical and/or health humanities. From the 1930s all the way through to the late 1970s, Lacan was deeply concerned with the ethical and political consequences of then-dominant conceptions of the human in the 'psy' disciplines. His attempt to 'humanise' these disciplines involved an emphasis on humans as symbolic beings, inevitably entangled in the structures of speech and the 'logic of the signifier.' This article explores the implications of Lacan's linguistic framework for his understanding of trauma. It argues that the Lacanian concept of trauma offers a timely antidote to dominant psychiatric notions of trauma today, linked as they are to the questionable politics of 'Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder' and, more recently, of 'Post-Traumatic Growth.'
本文认为，法国精神分析学家雅克·拉康（Jacques Lacan）的思想对于医学和/或健康人文学科这一新兴领域具有重要意义，但目前这一意义尚未得到广泛认可。从 20 世纪 30 年代到 70 年代末，拉康一直深入关注当时“心理”学科中占主导地位的人类概念的伦理和政治后果。他试图使这些学科“人性化”，这涉及到强调人类作为符号存在，必然会陷入言语结构和“能指的逻辑”之中。本文探讨了拉康语言学框架对他对创伤理解的影响。本文认为，拉康的创伤概念为当今占主导地位的精神科创伤概念提供了一个及时的解毒剂，因为这些概念与“创伤后应激障碍”和最近的“创伤后成长”的可疑政治联系在一起。
