This article makes the case for the largely unacknowledged relevance of the thought of the French psychoanalyst, Jacques Lacan, for the emerging field of the medical and/or health humanities. From the 1930s all the way through to the late 1970s, Lacan was deeply concerned with the ethical and political consequences of then-dominant conceptions of the human in the ‘psy’ disciplines. His attempt to ‘humanise’ these disciplines involved an emphasis on humans as symbolic beings, inevitably entangled in the structures of speech and the ‘logic of the signifier.’ This article explores the implications of Lacan’s linguistic framework for his understanding of trauma. It argues that the Lacanian concept of trauma offers a timely antidote to dominant psychiatric notions of trauma today, linked as they are to the questionable politics of ‘Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder’ and, more recently, of ‘Post-Traumatic Growth.’

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拉康关于创伤和因果关系：对创伤后压力/成长的精神分析批判

这篇文章证明了法国精神分析家雅克·拉康的思想与新兴的医学和/或健康人文科学领域在很大程度上未被承认的相关性。从 1930 年代一直到 1970 年代后期，拉康深切关注当时在“心理”学科中占主导地位的人类概念的伦理和政治后果。他试图将这些学科“人性化”，强调人是象征性的存在，不可避免地与言语结构和“能指逻辑”纠缠在一起。本文探讨了拉康的语言框架对他对创伤的理解的含义。它认为，拉康的创伤概念为当今主流的精神病学创伤观念提供了及时的解毒剂，