Our hypothesis is that cleavage can be seen as a radical functional resource for psychic survival in the wake of traumatic subjective experiences. As a strategy for adapting to traumatic reality, cleavage is the guardian of Eros, which might also be called psychic survival, as if, to survive, one must "kill" a part of oneself. Our guiding principle is this ambiguity that places cleavage between Thanatos and Eros.
Trauma; cleavage; Eros; Thanatos