Passage Discussion and Analysis Trauma Theory

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Passage Discussion and AnalysisTrauma Theory

• By Amy, Billy, Constance, Doris, Melody, Tiffany
  and Willa

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Passage We Choose (1)

• For some critics, such as Cathy Caruth, one of
  its most influential proponents, trauma theory
  provides a way of reconciling epistemological
  problems that follow in the wake of the Holocaust
  with a version of history, and so also of
  answering the charge that the focus on the
  materiality of language, associated with
  deconstruction, is negligently ahistorical.

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Passage We Choose (2)

• For Caruth, what is most significant about
  Freuds nightmare-stricken soldiers from Beyond
  Pleasure Principle is the insistent return of
  what she terms the literal in their dreams it
  is this returning literalness, she argues, which
  thus constitutes trauma and points to its
  enigmatic core the delay or incompletion in
  knowing, or even seeing, an overwhelming
  occurrence that then remains, in its insistent
  return, absolutely true to the event.

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Passage We Choose (3)

• The historical truth of trauma, hence, is
  contained in its belatedness (what Freud called
  latency), as what is referenced by trauma is the
  moment, so to speak, when history is missed.
  History, thus, in its traumatic form, can be
  grasped only in the very inaccessibility of its
  occurrence. What war writing, in a very broad
  sense, does for Caruth is perform this
  inaccessibility so that it is in the paradoxes of
  language itself that we can rediscover the force
  of trauma and the imperative for a new form of
  historical witnessing.

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Passage We Choose (4)

• By carrying that impossibility of knowing out of
  the empirical event itself, Caruth concludes her
  introduction to the widely influential collection
  Trauma Explorations in Memory, trauma opens up
  and challenges us to a new kind of listening, the
  witnessing, precisely, of impossibility.

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Main Idea of the Passage

• Belatedness
• Paradoxes of language
• Reexamination

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Example 921 Earthquake

• 921 Earthquake
• Latency Victims' Recall
• Inaccessibility Impossibility

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• Thanks for listening!!!

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