Abstract
The discussion highlights the significant role played by imagination in representing the horrors that resist representation. It is Dr. Tylim's position that imagination assists patient and analyst in overcoming the limitations of memory. Imagination is the gateway to truth. In working with survivors, the therapeutic encounter may become a stage where unspeakable experiences attain presence in their absence. The silence or the gaps are then the victim's testimony.
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Moises Kaufman's play Gross Indecency. The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde is another example of documentary theater.
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This paper was first presented as the inaugural colloquium of the Specialization Training in Trauma and Disaster Studies of the New York University Post Doctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy on January 25, 2008 and again as part of a panel at the Division 39 Convention “Viva Psychoanalysis” in San Antonio, Texas on April 25, 2009.
1Psy.D., ABPP, Faculty, New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. Faculty, Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research.