Haaken J
Department of Psychology, Portland State University, OR 97207, USA.
Psychiatry. 1995 May;58(2):189-98. doi: 10.1080/00332747.1995.11024725.
This paper presents a feminist-psychoanalytic analysis of the contemporary debate over the veracity of memories of sexual abuse recovered in treatment. Clinical discourse is currently divided between those who argue that recovered memories are veridical accounts of sexual trauma and those who claim that many therapists are creating memories of abuse in their patients. I present here an analysis of the debate on recovered memory and of the social dynamics underlying it, and discuss how these dynamics have shaped clinical practice. In exploring the clinical issues raised by the debate, I reassess Freud's abandonment of seduction theory and explore some of the problematic issues in separating fantasy and memory in female psychosexual development. Conflictual aspects of female development are situated in an analysis of patriarchal social relationships that continue to mediate feminine experience. I argue that the jettisoning of the concept of fantasy in much of the clinical literature on sexual abuse has contributed to a reification of memory-that is, as "true" or "false"- and a sacrifice of complexity in the clinical elaboration of women's abuse experiences. In reclaiming the concept of fantasy, I explore a range of meanings located between the imaginary and the "real" suggested by female narratives of sexual abuse.
本文呈现了一种女性主义精神分析视角下对当代关于治疗中恢复的性虐待记忆真实性辩论的分析。目前临床话语在两类人之间存在分歧，一类人认为恢复的记忆是性创伤的真实描述，另一类人则声称许多治疗师在其患者中制造了虐待记忆。我在此对关于恢复记忆的辩论及其背后的社会动态进行分析，并探讨这些动态如何塑造了临床实践。在探究该辩论引发的临床问题时，我重新评估了弗洛伊德对诱奸理论的摒弃，并探讨了女性性心理发展中区分幻想与记忆的一些问题所在。女性发展中的冲突方面体现在对父权社会关系的分析中，这种关系持续影响着女性的经历。我认为，在许多关于性虐待的临床文献中摒弃幻想概念，导致了记忆的具体化，即分为“真实的”或“虚假的”，并且在对女性虐待经历的临床阐述中牺牲了复杂性。在重新引入幻想概念时，我探索了女性性虐待叙事所暗示的介于想象与“现实”之间的一系列意义。
