Stolorow's work integrates existential phenomenology, influenced significantly by Martin Heidegger, to rethink psychoanalysis in the context of trauma and alienation. He argues that trauma fundamentally disrupts our perceived stability, forcing individuals to confront their own existential vulnerabilities. Trauma acts as an unveiling of the underlying anxieties of human existence, challenging daily certainties and bringing forth the unpredictability of being. This philosophical approach enhances therapeutic methods by emphasizing personal experience and the relational context within which individuals navigate their lives.
Trauma is a shattering of the "absolutisms of everyday life," those taken-for-granted frameworks that make the world seem stable and meaningful.
For Heidegger, to be human is to be thrown into a world that is fundamentally contingent, shaped by history and circumstance, and marked always by an underlying anxiety.
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