Pasquinelli, MatteoMalabou, Catherine2018-09-252018-09-252015978-3-95796-066-5https://mediarep.org/handle/doc/3010According 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.engPsychoanalyseSlavoj ŽižekJacques LacanSigmund Freud15010.25969/mediarep/1226978-3-95796-066-5http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/685