Raspotočje burning

Raspotočje burning


This book is based on the idea that none of us fully recovers from the trauma of childhood. The trauma of helplessness, the trauma of negotiating living conditions with looks and noise during a period in which the motor system is developmentally delayed, the trauma of a reality in which every experience is new every day, the trauma of the hatred of the parents on whom we depend, the trauma of castration by language, the trauma of the fossilization of an unattainable ideal of the self. The trauma of the disagreement between what we think is good and evil, what our caregivers think is good and evil, and what society thinks is good and evil; in other words, the trauma of who is safest to betray.
The contemporary subject today chooses experiences and types of relationships of high intensity; we live in an era in which the intensity of stimulation exceeds the quality of relationships or the difference between them has been erased.

Each essay begins with an autobiographical sketch related to its topic. All of them were originally presented in my psychoanalytic sessions from the position of patient or analysant. Contrary to common psychoanalytic literature, here the analysant is known, and the psychoanalysts are identified by pseudonyms.

Goran Pećanac

  • Cover: paperback
  • Year of the edition: 2025