The article is based on the analysis of one psychodynamic interview session the author had with one of his respondents, who had with the author a long‐term, one‐on‐one series of sessions. Positioning the respondent in his sociocultural and political setting (as a Pashtun, male, well‐educated, and middle‐class individual living in south‐east Afghanistan, at a time of great instability and security concerns), the article explores the respondent's recounting of a harrowing and haunting personal encounter. Such exploration is based on a psychodynamic approach that intends dissociation as a functional mechanism the individual employs to fend off an unbearable reality that never passed the stage of unformulated experience. By bringing the dissociative material to a state of conscious conflict, what was previously unformulated, because unbearable, becomes at least thinkable. Such is the development that the respondent reaches during the intersubjective exchange with the author, which shows how a “haunting” experience may index the presence of an adaptive state of dissociation.

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从隐喻到解释：“困扰”是对分离过程的诊断

本文基于对作者与一位受访者进行的一次心理动力面试会议的分析，后者与作者进行了长期的，一对一的交流。本文将受访者置于自己的社会文化和政治环境中（在充满动荡和安全问题的时候，生活在阿富汗东南部的普什图族男性，受过良好教育的中产阶级），本文探讨了受访者的诉求令人痛苦和困扰的个人遭遇。这种探索是基于一种心理动力学的方法，这种方法旨在将解离作为个人用来抵御从未经历过无计划的经历阶段的难以忍受的现实的一种功能机制。通过将分离性材料带入一种有意识的冲突状态，原本是未计划的，因为无法忍受，变得至少可以考虑。这就是被访者在与作者进行主体间交流时所达到的发展，这表明“困扰”体验如何可以索引适应性解离状态的存在。