The Centre Cannot Hold: Comments on “The Reality of Trauma; The Trauma of Reality” by Bakó & Zana

ABSTRACT

These comments on the paper by Bakó and Zana will contemplate the authors’ concept, the we reality, in the context of established psychoanalytic thought, especially in relation to the idea of the gap in the continuity of being as introduced by Winnicott (1971) and later developed by Green (1986, 1988), Ogden (2021) and others. The functioning of we reality will also be demonstrated through the characters and plots of two olden-time Soviet movies directed by the renowned Gregory Chukhray, The Ballad of a Soldier (1959) and Clear Skies (1961).

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The Reality of Trauma; the Trauma of Reality

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Veronica Csillag

Veronica Csillag, LCSW is a Faculty, Training and Supervising Analyst, and former Co-Director, Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis; Faculty, National Institute for the Psychotherapies. Associate Editor, Psychoanalytic Dialogues. She is the author of the book, From Budapest to Psychoanalysis: Three Portraits and their Analytic Frames, published by Routledge in 2022 as well as of several psychoanalytic papers, which appeared in a variety of journals, The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, Psychoanalytic Dialogues and The Psychoanalytic Quarterly among them. She is in private practice in New York City.