Duelo y Trauma: una peculiar situación de la clínica actual.

As an attempt to think about the clinical approach in nowadays psychoanalytical practice and its theoretical articulation, the authors present a clinical case where the complexity of the situation offered an opportunity to think about the frontiers of psychoanalysis and also about the "different psychoanalysis" that nowadays challenge the clinical practice. The clinical situation: The patient was a seven years old boy brought to consultation due the presence of symptoms that configured a severe depression. He was going through a "peculiar mourning" since his father, after a car accident remained alive but in state of coma. The whole family moved from a fare away city to Buenos Aires, looking for better conditions for the father and simultaneously the boy began a treatment that lasted eight months. We consider that these months allowed the boy to open some gaps that marked the path to a working through of his mourning. He began to fill the representational emptiness generated for the traumatic episode. We thought how does the child psyche elaborates this peculiar presence/absence and in what ways can he inscribe and represent this situation? Is this episode traumatic in itself or is the presence of this dead/alive father a "real" in the lacanian sense that is operating as traumatic? We also we interrogated ourselves about the possible variances in the psychoanalytic approach. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]