Journal of Forensic Psychology

Abstract

Traumatic Memory and Dream Process: From Unconscious to Consciousness

Katerina Mangana*

Dream process is essential for our body and mind. It is not just a bio-data, it is a meaningful experience that helps the human being to grow, classify their memories, elaborate their feelings and inner repulsed desires and conflicts. Traumatic memory can sabotage this process; block the memory network disrupting the streams of communication between unconscious and consciousness. In the therapeutical context dreams are of the most powerful and revealing material. They can unlock crucial points of the analytical process as shown in the short clinical presentation.

The topic I am about to present concerns the traumatic memory and the dream process from a psychoanalytic approach. We know that dreams are of great importance in psychoanalysis but also in the psychosomatic since everything a human being experiences has an inscription on both soma and mind on the psychosomatic unity. Our body always participates in conflicting and traumatic situations, especially when these can be neither represented nor contemplated.

Published Date: 2024-08-12; Received Date: 2020-06-04