Volume 40, Issue 1/4, 2024
Signs of Rebirth and Renewal
Maur¨ªcio S. Neubern
Pages 71-85
https://doi.org/10.5840/ajs202542392
De-sign, Renewal, and Rebirth
Understanding Hypnotic Changes in Clinical Practice
Through the use of De-sign, as termed by Farouk Seif (2019), this work aims to promote an understanding of trance as it is linked to rebirth, which is a metaphor for a lived experience. To achieve this goal, this work will be developed in three interconnected axes. The first is rebirth, which implicates a temporal reconfiguration in which the freshness of novelty characterizes the new self. In this state, present, future, and past are implicated through the polychronic principle. However, the present must be dominant both during and after a hypnotic trance because rebirth needs to maintain itself as a potential source for new moments of change (renewal). The second axis is rebirth, which is linked to new forms of diaphanous space because the transformation promoted by hypnosis occurs at both an individual level and a collective one. Hypnosis, then, promotes new forms of belonging (ethos), which have many forms of existential consequences. The third axis deals with teleological processes, which are essential for rebirth, since surrendering to a new perspective of life can favor the continuity of those processes. In this sense, rebirth originating via a hypnotic trance cannot be compared to a result caused by an efficacy of treatment but must instead be result in a desirable outcome related to an integrative process.