ABSTRACT
This chapter demonstrates how transcultural clinical work may forcefully mobilise and indeed amplify the traumatic aspect inherent in the encounter with the other, which lies at the very heart of psychoanalysis. Psychoanalysis has founded the concept of the unconscious which has stopped being an object or a content to be either unveiled or discovered, as it used to be in earlier philosophy, but has been the very process of the discovery itself. The transcultural therapeutic relationship highlights these central aspects of psychoanalysis. The transcultural therapeutic relationship highlights the central aspects of psychoanalysis. The chapter explains therapeutic relationships as being multi-ethnic owing to their involving a dimension of cultural otherness, which becomes part and parcel of the therapy that is focused on working-out and acknowledging the other and Grinbergs traumatic potential. He speak of adjourned mourning as a possible outcome of the effects of post traumatic events and they specifically qualify emigrations as a cumulative trauma.
