Trauma

1. Etymology

Trauma names an intense emotional shock, often with repression and splitting of personality. Sharp redirects to abreaction. Related: cathartic method; complex; dissociation; affect.

2. Plain summary

Sharp’s brief head defines trauma as intense emotional shock with repression and personality splitting, and points to abreaction. Samuels has no free-standing trauma essay—see psychoanalysis and reductive/synthetic methods. In the house Index, trauma is the shock-event that abreaction historically aimed to discharge and that later Jungian practice reframes toward integrating the dissociation rather than only replaying the scene.

Examples (exhaustive house list for this Index lemma — common trauma motifs named across Jung’s essays and standard Jungian lexica; not a claim that Jung’s CW contains only these):
intense emotional shock; repression; splitting of personality; Sharp → abreaction; Samuels → psychoanalysis / reductive–synthetic; depotentiation of affectivity (abreaction neighborhood); integration of dissociation vs mere catharsis; complex / affect linkage.

3. Academic elucidation

In analytical psychology trauma is the shock that can split and repress, historically paired with abreaction and later with synthetic integration. Lexica (Sharp short + See; Samuels redirects) supply paraphrase Prefer dual abreaction ABR-1–3—do not invent Trauma-only loci.

4. Lexicon

Sharp (1991)

Trauma. An intense emotional shock, often accompanied by repression and a splitting of the personality. (See abreaction).

(Sharp, 1991)

Samuels, Shorter & Plaut (1986) — trauma (redirect.

trauma See PSYCHOANALYSIS; REDUCTIVE AND SYNTHETIC METHODS.

(Samuels, Shorter, & Plaut, 1986)

5. CW concordance — sample, not exhaustive

Dual via abreaction (ABR-1–3 already stamped; no rewrite):

The trauma is abreacted…
(Jung, 1914/1961, CW 4, pp. 258–259, ¶582)

belief/devotion > rehearsing traumata…
(Jung, 1914/1961, CW 4, pp. 259–260, ¶¶584–585)

dramatic rehearsal depotentiates affectivity…
(Jung, 1921/1966, CW 16, pp. 130–131, ¶¶262–263)

See also: abreaction; affect; complex; dissociation; repression; cathartic-method; reductive; trickster.

References

Jung, C. G. (1961). Some crucial points in psychoanalysis. In H. Read, M. Fordham, G. Adler, & W. McGuire (Eds.), The collected works of C. G. Jung (R. F. C. Hull, Trans.) (Vol. 4). Princeton University Press. (Original work published 1914)

Jung, C. G. (1966). The therapeutic value of abreaction. In H. Read, M. Fordham, G. Adler, & W. McGuire (Eds.), The collected works of C. G. Jung (R. F. C. Hull, Trans.) (2nd ed., Vol. 16). Princeton University Press. (Original work published 1921)

Samuels, A., Shorter, B., & Plaut, F. (1986). A critical dictionary of Jungian analysis. Routledge.

Sharp, D. (1991). Jung lexicon: A primer of terms & concepts. Inner City Books.