Aeneas: a contemporary myth. The ability to be oneself in the continu-ity of the trauma

Journal title PSICOTERAPIA PSICOANALITICA
Author/s Annapaola Giannelli
Publishing Year 2021 Issue 2021/2 Language Italian
Pages 11 P. 164-174 File size 213 KB
DOI 10.3280/PSP2021-002011
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The author in this article uses the Myth of Aeneas to describe the continuity of Being in the discontinuity of Existence. She uses Myth as Bion suggests as a narrative psychological structure that allows access to the Unconscious similarly to the dream. The traumas that Aeneas experiences interrupt the linearity of the lived time but he has the abil-ity to resist and get up. This ability is based on the internalization of a maternal object that has performed the function of pointing out the experiences of hatred and of having given clues for the transformation of anger and rage, not in acting out but in the ability to overcome the hate himself. Aeneas represents the one who is able to ‘suffer’ pain and transform it as his life is marked by the dimension of trust and mourn-ing, intrinsic elements that the author believes can be traced in the psychoanalytic study that the Myths suggest as expressed in the Bionian theory. The author uses the ‘time’ function to describe these transitions and the perception of oneself as unitary in the times of the past, present and future without his thoughts leading to madness.

Keywords: myth, hatred, trauma, pain, mourning, transformations, time.

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Annapaola Giannelli, Enea: un mito contemporaneo. La capacità di essere se stessi nella continuità del trauma in "PSICOTERAPIA PSICOANALITICA" 2/2021, pp 164-174, DOI: 10.3280/PSP2021-002011