Freud held that the patient is fixated to his trauma

Evidence

As opposed to what Freud affirms in Beyond the Pleasure Principle: “the patient is, as one might say, fixated to his trauma” (Freud, SE, 18:13). — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded, 4594

Categorization

• XREF: Sets up the direct confrontation with Freud’s Beyond the Pleasure Principle that Malabou’s destructive plasticity thesis is built against.
• DEFINE: Quotes the Freudian fixation claim that encodes the psychoanalytic orthodoxy Malabou contests.