This paper argues that the uncertain public status of victim narratives of sexual abuse has inhibited the information sharing and dialogue necessary for policy reform and transformative change. Through an integration of public sphere theory and relational psychoanalysis, the paper identifies the need for a transitional space for the explication of sexual abuse narratives in order to bridge the gap between private suffering and public understanding. The Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse provides a case study of a transitional mechanism, with a focus on its instantiation of a therapeutic politics and the resultant synthesis of the rational–critical dimensions of public speech with the emotional depth and substance of traumatic catharsis. The paper suggests that public inquiries are uniquely positioned to act as transitional spaces between the personal and political dimensions of traumatic experience, while recognizing the challenges posed to this space by the contemporary bureaucratic state.

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公共调查的过渡空间：澳大利亚皇家委员会对儿童性虐待的机构反应的案例

本文认为，性虐待受害者叙述的不确定公共地位抑制了政策改革和变革所需的信息共享和对话。通过整合公共领域理论和关系精神分析，本文确定了解释性虐待叙事的过渡空间的必要性，以弥合私人痛苦和公众理解之间的差距。澳大利亚皇家委员会对儿童性虐待的制度反应提供了一个过渡机制的案例研究，重点是它对治疗政治的实例化，以及由此产生的公共演讲的理性-批判维度与情感深度和实质的综合。创伤性宣泄。