The Psychic Life of Fragments, with Raluca Soreanu

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This ticket is for IN-HOUSE access to this event. Please click here if you would like to purchase an online ticket. ________________________________________________________________________ The Freud Museum is delighted to host the book launch of Raluca Soreanu’s monograph ‘The Psychic Life of Fragments: On Splitting and the Experience of Time in Psychoanalysis’ (Routledge, 2026, The Relational Perspectives Series). This evening symposium dedicated to the book (6:00pm – 8:00pm) is available either in person or online . The Psychic Life of Fragments rethinks trauma and psychic fragmentation starting from the psychoanalytic clinic. What does it mean to work with fragments in psychoanalysis? What is the psychic life of fragments? And what can a fragment do? Raluca Soreanu writes about trauma, fragmentation and the radical plasticity of the psyche. Reconstructing Sándor Ferenczi’s trauma theory, she articulates an original vocabulary of fractures, splits, atomisations, pulverisations, leakages, detritus and psychic dematerialisation along with new formations, protective membranes, expansions, contagions and growths. She approaches the scene of trauma from new angles, paying attention to oblique lines and asymmetric encounters. Mobilizing clinical and literary vignettes, this book further argues for a minor psychoanalysis, one that emerges at the intersection of four types of theoretical-clinical experimentation: a psychoanalysis of scars, a psychoanalysis of organs, an eventful …