This thesis argues for performative ways to write trauma, ghosts and silence against the particularities of German post-war experiences. It begins with the re-discovery of a photographic image that provides a starting point. I unfold linguistically uncalibrated yet embodied knowledge into insecure or uncertain registers of traumatic intergenerational reverberations. Drawing on psychoanalytic theory of trauma, I chart a trajectory from individuated self towards one pledged on intersubjective conditions for an iteratively-emergent subjectivity. Trauma framed in terms of interrelational silence is woven into the material fixicity of the image, with its fleetingly evoked and fragmented slivers of memory. Positioned on the cusp of an inquiry that troubles the coherence of a subject-who-knows, I argue for an eruptive heterogeneity that speaks creatively to possible ways of re-presenting the significance and specificity of familial and national silence in the aftermath of an abject war. The discreetness of trauma, ghosts and silence is reconfigured in terms of an in-betweenness of generational reverberations; these echoes form the layers into and against which I write silenced, repressed and marginalized voices, voices shaped predominately by absence from dominant discourses. The transgressive nature of writing against the grain, of writing against the primacy of certainty is developed further through the chapters, mapping a complex methodological and theoretical possibility. I trouble notions of ‘data’ in light of contestations that favour ambiguous possibilities pertaining to hauntings and ghosts, aware of the paradoxical nature of linearly constructed arguments in support of fragmentary and fragmented knowledge claims. The complexities are further accentuated through texts written in different genres, which seek to mirror context and emergent content. The thesis builds into an enmeshment of reverberations within which space is given over to Other, drawing fictitious and fictionalized voices into contestations around narrativization and finitude.

O sujeito acometido pelo Trauma Raquimedular (TRM) seguido de lesão medular (LM) perde a sensibilidade e a motricidade de parte ou de quase todo o corpo, além do funcionamento do organismo ficar desregulado. Podem ser caracterizados em cinco grupos: Tetraplegia ou paraplegia, completas e incompletas, ou normal. Este trabalho foi uma proposta de revisitar, sob a luz das teorias freudo-lacanianas, o conteúdo dos atendimentos psicanalíticos a sujeitos com este acometimento, realizados no Hospital das Clínicas SP. A partir de relatos elaborados, recuperando evoluções e anotações dos Prontuários do Paciente e Protocolos do Serviço de Psicologia, de atendimentos a dez pacientes, foi possível não só re-investigar psicanaliticamente o material escutado das livres associações, como também construir mais sistematicamente o caminho traçado pelo atendimento psicanalítico nas especificidades da clínica de Lesão Medular. Para tanto, o alicerce de suporte foi o constructo silêncio, explorado teoricamente junto ao seu alcance na prática clínica, que em sua singularidade marcou este encontro analítico entre os pacientes com tetraplegia e o psicanalista em contexto hospitalar / The subject affected by Rachimedullary Trauma (RMT) followed by Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) loses the sensibility and the motor of part or of its entire body, and also suffers from the deregulation of its body`s functioning. These traumas can be characterized into five groups: Tetraplegia and paraplegia, complete and incomplete, or normal. This work is a proposal to revisit, under the freud-lacanian theories, the content of psychoanalytic care to subjects with this condition, performed at Hospital das Clínicas São Paulo. elaborate reports from recovered annotations of the Medical Records of Patients and Protocols of the Psychology Department, from the psychoanalytic care of ten subjects, it was not only possible to psychoanalytically re-investigate the heard material from the free associations, but also to build more systematically the route delineated by psychoanalytic care on the specificities of the clinical Spinal Cord Injury. For this purpose, the foundation supporting was the construct of silence, theoretically explored along its range in clinical practice, that in its singularity marked this analytic encounter between patients with tetraplegia and the psychoanalyst in a hospital context

O sujeito acometido pelo Trauma Raquimedular (TRM) seguido de lesão medular (LM) perde a sensibilidade e a motricidade de parte ou de quase todo o corpo, além do funcionamento do organismo ficar desregulado. Podem ser caracterizados em cinco grupos: Tetraplegia ou paraplegia, completas e incompletas, ou normal. Este trabalho foi uma proposta de revisitar, sob a luz das teorias freudo-lacanianas, o conteúdo dos atendimentos psicanalíticos a sujeitos com este acometimento, realizados no Hospital das Clínicas SP. A partir de relatos elaborados, recuperando evoluções e anotações dos Prontuários do Paciente e Protocolos do Serviço de Psicologia, de atendimentos a dez pacientes, foi possível não só re-investigar psicanaliticamente o material escutado das livres associações, como também construir mais sistematicamente o caminho traçado pelo atendimento psicanalítico nas especificidades da clínica de Lesão Medular. Para tanto, o alicerce de suporte foi o constructo silêncio, explorado teoricamente junto ao seu alcance na prática clínica, que em sua singularidade marcou este encontro analítico entre os pacientes com tetraplegia e o psicanalista em contexto hospitalar / The subject affected by Rachimedullary Trauma (RMT) followed by Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) loses the sensibility and the motor of part or of its entire body, and also suffers from the deregulation of its body`s functioning. These traumas can be characterized into five groups: Tetraplegia and paraplegia, complete and incomplete, or normal. This work is a proposal to revisit, under the freud-lacanian theories, the content of psychoanalytic care to subjects with this condition, performed at Hospital das Clínicas São Paulo. elaborate reports from recovered annotations of the Medical Records of Patients and Protocols of the Psychology Department, from the psychoanalytic care of ten subjects, it was not only possible to psychoanalytically re-investigate the heard material from the free associations, but also to build more systematically the route delineated by psychoanalytic care on the specificities of the clinical Spinal Cord Injury. For this purpose, the foundation supporting was the construct of silence, theoretically explored along its range in clinical practice, that in its singularity marked this analytic encounter between patients with tetraplegia and the psychoanalyst in a hospital context