"Meaningless displacement": a clinical study of violent experience and displacement

Abstract

From interviews conducted with four people who have lived violent experiences and displacement, the way in which each of them has subjectified these events was studied. For this purpose, the representations that they built from both experiences were identified, the senses that they gave them, which could not be integrated into their psyche and related symptoms. This study shows the particular way in which each subject observes, assumes and gives meaning to violent experiences lived, and how this singularity intersects with collective discourses to grant or expose it to traumatic effects. Since the research objectives are aimed at understanding and describing a phenomenon, the methodology used is qualitative. And considering that the aforementioned effects of trauma can be seen in the subject's discourse, the technique used was the clinical interview, which promotes fluidity in the evocation and association in the subject's discourse.