A Trauma Revisited: Fanon, Žižek, and Violence

International Journal of Žižek Studies 8 (2) (2014)
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Abstract

Although trauma is by nature a pathological experience found in the lives of some traumatised human beings, I argue that it does not necessarily referring to the past memory. This article aims to revisit trauma by shifting trauma from intermingled with a disturbed memory the individuals might have towards the past to the new hypothesis that trauma is a contemporaneity where the relationships among the pathological subjects, the mental disorders, and the structural violence are coexistent - proved by the subject’s historical awareness drawn from colonialism and capitalist epochs

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