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Post-Trauma. Towards a New Definition?

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According to Žižek, contemporary approaches to trauma disregard Lacan’s most fundamental statement: trauma has always already occurred. To state that trauma has already occurred means that it cannot occur by chance, that every empirical accident or shock impairs an already or a previously wounded subject. In this text, I want to chance a thought that would definitely escape the always already’s authority, which would give chance a chance. The chapter goes on to compare the Freudian/Lacanian view of brain trauma versus psychic trauma with contemporary neurobiological and socio-political views on trauma.

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Malabou, Catherine: Post-Trauma. Towards a New Definition?. In: Pasquinelli, Matteo: Alleys of Your Mind. Augmented Intelligence and Its Traumas. Lüneburg: meson press 2015, S. 187-198. DOI: 10.25969/mediarep/1226.
@INCOLLECTION{Malabou2015,
 author = {Malabou, Catherine},
 title = {Post-Trauma. Towards a New Definition?},
 year = 2015,
 doi = {10.25969/mediarep/1226},
 editor = {Pasquinelli, Matteo},
 address = {Lüneburg},
 booktitle = {Alleys of Your Mind. Augmented Intelligence and Its Traumas},
 pages = {187--198},
 publisher = {meson press},
 isbn = {978-3-95796-066-5},
}
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