On the Nature of the Traumatogenic Event

IF 0.1 Q4 POLITICAL SCIENCE

Politicka Misao-Croatian Political Science Review Pub Date : 2022-12-23 DOI:10.20901/pm.59.4.01

S. Homer

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Abstract

Historical events, however terrible, are not in and of themselves traumatic.‎ For a trauma to emerge at the level of a collectivity, ‘social crises must become ‎cultural crises’ (Alexander et al., 2004, p. 10). For an historical event ‎to become a cultural trauma, it must be socially mediated and represented, a ‎trauma narrative must be constructed. Consequently, there is always a gap‎ between the traumatogenic event and its representation, this gap creates the‎ space for the ‘trauma process’. Unlike trauma theory, therefore, cultural trauma ‎places the weight of analysis not on the historical event as such but on the ‎narrative struggle that constitutes and sustains that event as a cultural trauma.‎ Thus, we have a series of interrelated terms: history, trauma, narrative and‎ memory, that pivot around an absent presence, a traumatogenic event. It is the‎ nature of that traumatogenic event that I explore in this paper. First, I will set ‎out my theoretical differences from trauma theory and then attempt to square‎ the circle between a non-pathological conception of trauma in cultural trauma‎ theory and my own commitment to psychoanalysis. In conclusion I will put‎ forward a number of claims that I hope will be consistent with cultural trauma‎ theory. That is to say, the traumatogenic event is not given but is retrospectively‎ constructed and in this sense is ahistorical and non-narrative.‎

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论致伤事件的性质

历史事件无论多么可怕，其本身并不具有创伤性。对于在集体层面上出现的创伤，“社会危机必须成为”文化危机“(Alexander et al.， 2004, p. 10)。一个历史事件要成为一种文化创伤，就必须经过社会调解和再现，必须构建一种创伤叙事。因此，在造成创伤的事件和它的表现之间总是有一个缺口，这个缺口为“创伤过程”创造了空间。因此，与创伤理论不同，文化创伤不是把分析的重心放在历史事件本身，而是放在构成和维持作为文化创伤的事件的叙事斗争上。因此，我们有了一系列相互关联的术语:历史、创伤、叙事和记忆，围绕着一个缺席的存在，一个致伤事件。本文探讨的正是这一创伤性事件的本质。首先，我将阐述我与创伤理论的理论差异，然后尝试在文化创伤理论中创伤的非病理概念与我自己对精神分析的承诺之间建立联系。最后，我将提出一些主张，我希望这些主张能与文化创伤理论相一致。也就是说，造成创伤的事件不是给定的，而是回顾性地构建的，在这个意义上是非历史的和非叙事的

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Politicka Misao-Croatian Political Science Review POLITICAL SCIENCE-

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