The present essay comprises an interrogation to psychoanalysis theory on the consequences of trauma in the psychic role of memory, based on the works of Sigmund Freud, Sandor Ferenczi e Nicolas Abraham e Maria Torok. We state that the traumatic subverts the psychic registry of events. The paradoxical image of trauma as the reverse of memory intends to offer a symbolism to this subversion, indicating the change in the direction of the psychic cathexis.
Psychoanalysis; trauma; memory; psychic cathexis