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Trauma Explorations in Memory

Trauma Explorations in Memory

Paperback

Medical ReferenceLiterary CriticismGeneral Psychology

ISBN10: 080185007X
ISBN13: 9780801850073
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: Jun 1 1995
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.88
Height: 0.68 Width: 6.04 Depth: 8.97
Language: English

Because traumatic events are unbearable in their horror and intensity, they often exist as memories that are not immediately recognizable as truth. Such experiences are best understood not only through the straightforward acquisition of facts but through a process of discovering where and why conscious understanding and memory fail. Literature, according to Cathy Caruth and others, opens a window on traumatic experience because it teaches readers to listen to what can be told only in indirect and surprising ways. Sociology, film, and political activism can also provide new ways of thinking about and responding to the experience of trauma.

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