âThis book will reward scholars across a number of disciplines: literary studies, trauma studies, psychoanalysis and psychology, and philosophy.â âChoice  This book argues that Freudâs mapping of trauma as a scene is central to both his clinical interpretation of his patientsâ symptoms and his construction of successive theoretical models and concepts to explain the power of such scenes in his patientsâ lives. This attention to the scenic form of trauma and its power in determining symptoms leads to Freudâs break from the neurological model of trauma he inherited from Charcot. It also helps to explain the affinity that Freud, and many since him, have felt between psychoanalysis and literatureâand artistic production more generallyâand the privileged role of literature at certain turning points in the development of his thought. It is Freudâs scenography of trauma and fantasy that speaks to the student of literature and painting.
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