ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on some of Janet and Freud’s early works to investigate the way in which the notion of trauma was linked to problems surrounding memory, in a context where this function was beginning to be conceived as a scientific object (while the art of memory and the weight of tradition were starting to lose importance). In this framework, not only was trauma associated with mnemic processes, but also was its treatment. Through therapeutic practice, new questions arose about the place that memory, forgetting and the present position had in regard to the traumatic character of a past experience.
