July 14, 2025

Beyond the Void: The Role of Symbolic Narratives in Managing an Identity Conflict.

Key Points

MAIN FINDING: Symbolic narratives play a crucial role in managing identity conflicts, helping individuals integrate their experiences.
KEY EVIDENCE: The study illustrates a transgender individual's journey, where narratives foster trauma integration and acceptance.
APPROACH: By analyzing fairy tales and clinical cases, the work connects narrative symbolism to personal transformation.
SIGNIFICANCE: Findings offer new insights for contemporary psychoanalytic practice, emphasizing creative processes in therapy.

Abstract

This study explores the transformative role of internal narratives in psychic integration, particularlyin adapting to dissociative states and identity conflicts. Drawing on Propp, Bettelheim, andBromberg, it examines fairy tales as a meta-psychic language for reworking experience. Throughthe clinical case of a transgender individual, it illustrates how imaginative narratives aid traumaintegration and identity acceptance. Highlighting the continuity between childhood and adultcreativity, the study links narrative symbolism to overcoming inner emptiness and loss. Findingsunderscore symbolic narratives as a valuable therapeutic tool, offering new insights forcontemporary psychoanalytic practice.

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Federico Tagliatti (Mon,) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/689a02b6e6551bb0af8cc342 https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/h5qfv_v1