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Portela de Carvalho, M. T., & de Camargo Viana, T. (2013). Trauma and the negative narcissism in borderline cases. Psychologia, 7(2), 101–114. https://doi.org/10.21500/19002386.1207
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Abstract

This work emphasizes the deadly repetition as a psychic violence revealed by the issue of trauma. This theme is particularly important for the
clinic of borderline cases. The Freudian idea that combines trauma and sexuality has existed since the beginnings of psychoanalysis. But are
there different focuses along its work? How they can be related to borderline cases clinic? We are guided by the Freudian text called Beyond
the Pleasure Principle (1920) and by Andre Green´s propositions on the subject, which concern: The Neutral, objectifying and deobjectfying
functions and negative narcissism. From the moment Freud complexifies the notion of trauma so it evidences an excess of external stimuli and
instinctual that cannot be part of the chain of psychic representation, Freud also reveals a particular mode of objectual-love: the pair sadismmasochism.
But while this pair is still expression of Eros, Green’s Neutral concept is the expression of what he calls negative narcissism. In
both cases, the traumatic is a requirement of presentification.

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