TRAUMA AND REPARATION:

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TRAUMA AND REPARATION
elements for a rhetoric of marks
Isabel Piper Shafir
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• I am going to
• propose a problematisation of the idea of trauma
  
• develop the idea of a rhetoric of mark and its
  relationship with trauma and reparation
• analyze one of its effects the construction of
  a victim subject

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Pinochet taking care of Allende
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Allende and Pinochet
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Pinochet and Fidel Castro
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The logic of the different versions of political
trauma is certainly clear there are subjects
(individuals and groups) that are exposed to
violent social conditions that hurt them
differently to the way other type of events would
affect them. Such harm, wound or trauma leaves
intra-psychic signs that remain even after the
social event that provoked them has finished.
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• First problem
• The notion of trauma assumes the existence of
  and integrated subject that is broken by the
  impact of an event.
• Discourses of trauma are constructing notions of
  the individual and of society that contribute to
  the reproduction of the same social order that
  they seek to contest.

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Second problem arguing the political origins of
the trauma experienced has gradually given rise
to a rhetoric that has contributed to the
psychologisation and depoliticizing of other
processes, to the extent that it is forced to
differentiate itself from other practices which,
though centered around similar subjects, are not
so political.
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• If we understand social subjects as an enduring
  product of our social relationships, then they we
  neglect the importance of the past signs. And
  instead we give more importance to current
  practices of domination.
• The rhetoric of the mark invites us to focus on
  the past and to construct the past as a
  determinant cause of the present. This rhetoric
  constructs the notion that there are personal and
  social essences that have been fractured by the
  dictatorship violence, which in turn neglects
  current relations of domination.

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