Rom J Psychoanal 2022, 15(2):111-124
DOI: 10.2478/rjp-2022-0017
Abstract: Radu Clit is a Romanian psychoanalyst who lives in Paris, France, since 1993. In 1999, he received his PhD from the Sorbonne, with the paper “Totalitarian Framework and Narcissistic Functioning”, published in Romania in 2004. His most recent work, “From Trauma to Writing. A Viewpoint on Herta Müller’s Literary Creation”, was written in 2018, and the author translated it into Romanian and published it in Romania in 2019. There is a relationship of continuity between the two books, with the second work being constructed as a case study, an exemplification – through the literary creation of a great writer, Herta Müller – of the concepts of trauma, narcissistic functioning and totalitarian societies presented in his first book.