ABSTRACT
Working-through is a fairly complex, at times controversial category, not only because its punctuation is not entirely stabilized but also because it straddles various theoretical fields and hails from diverse approaches. In this chapter, the author attends to the issue of working-through and its currency in the fictional representation of trauma, paying attention, in turn, to resistance, tensions and problematical closure. Working-through has ceased to be associated with one of the key notions that brought it into existence, that is, resistance. Working-through may equally owe its complexity to the fact that it is a category defined in relation to another one and to its being determined by another couple of Freudian concepts, when used in the field of trauma studies. A far cry from the image of working-through peddled in everyday parlance, resolution or healing are a moot point in most theoretical and fictional evocations.
