This text takes into account neuroses that develop from an explicit trauma that occurred in the material reality, but which appear with some features of transference neurosis. The classical description of traumatic neurosis is briefly depicted; next, an autobiographical account is narrated by the French Jewish writer Sarah Kofman, who spent her childhood in France during World War II, when her father was killed in Auschwitz, and was forced to live in hiding during that period. On the one hand, the object is discussed, through loss, as well as the the relationships established with it; on the other, the trauma itself. We try to show that the interaction between these two currents creates a complex relationship that may be responsible more for transference neurosis features than for traumatic neurosis. The "erotic", in the phallic-Oedipal meaning, seems to be what produces this complexity, functioning as a working-through factor of the trauma..
Psychoanalysis; theory of generalized seduction; holocaust